Advantages: Stunning performances, wonderful combination of sex, art, and politics. Disadvantages: Some may find it a little too explicit.
Every once in a while a film comes along that restores my faith in the art form. Months of suffering through generic blockbusters, uninspired "independent" films and various dodgy foreign films that are supposedly good because the people watching them get to feel superior to those who don't do subtitles. All of this is worthwhile for that occasional good film that makes it worth repeating the entire process for. The Dreamers is one of those films.
Heading into it, I really wasn't elated at the idea of what I'd be seeing. Thanks to the flaws in the marketing, I was under the impression that I'd be seeing one, or all of the following:
a) An entirely foreign language film.
b) A love letter to a bunch of films that I hadn't seen.
c) A tediously dull film where nothing really happened.
d) Something that bordered on the pornographic ...
Advantages: it's a second part of the cult movie Disadvantages: if you like second parts of course
Thirty years ago, director Bernardo Bertolucci shocked audiences with his sexually explicit “Last Tango In Paris”. And “The Dreamers” is second part of this film. I really don’t know why did he make second part of the film, if he knew that in this time, on the beginning of the brand new century, this film wouldn’t be too shocking after all. The Italian director has returned to the scene of the crime in another bare bottom bedroom study of erotic rejection and neglect. But, there’s a big difference between Tango and Dreamers.
It is Paris, 1968. Matthew (Michael Pitt), young American, meets French twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) at the Cinémathèque Francaise, during demonstration against Henri Langlois. Matthew is broke with no money, when they invite him to dinner in ...
barefoot777 20.04.2004 (21.04.2004)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Dreamers DVD
Advantages: Every Thing Disadvantages: Nothing at all
This is the best lotta dosh my husband spent ( He keeps reminding me ) :) and it has pride and place in my collection of many queen items books dvd singles lp`s yep them remember them the book is totally beautiful and is great for pictures you might not ever off seen,
Not to mention the wonderful out takes on the cd`s if you are a life long fan like myself a fan since 1973 then that's says 2 things 1 i`m old and 2 mentally addicted to Freddie`s voice its a well know fact in my family mum has to have her Freddie fix then her Brian fix and so on a must for every old/real fan some of the out takes you can almost see them doing in your mind its Magic really it is one of the best collection you could own. ...
