![]() ![]() Bertolucci sees the picture as a lesson for today's kids about the free culture, free thinking, and free love that flourished for a shining moment in the dreamworld of '68, and he might be onto something: Contemporary teenagers, lacking extensive direct experience of Baby Boomer self-glorification, may warm up to the ancient struggles of the sixties. Without the anti-stigma of the NC-17 rating, The Dreamers couldn't exist at all. ![]() No, what The Dreamers hides in its heart is the way its existence depends on the restrictions flouted by its characters. A story of quasi-incestuous, international young love set in Paris at the time of the 1968 student riots, it tries hard to convince us that it is revolutionary, just as it tries to keep us awake with the all-nude sex scenes that earned the film an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).īut what's scandalous about The Dreamers is not the almost-affair between the film's French brother and sister, Théo and Isabelle, nor the not-so-shocking way it flirts with the kinda-sorta homosexual attraction between Théo and Matthew, its American protagonist. To Mao Zedong's infamous list of things a revolution is not-it's not a dinner party or doing embroidery, for instance-we can now add, courtesy of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci and his new film, The Dreamers, a few other things a revolution isn't: It's not a housewares catalog or a fashion show, it's not a membership to Netflix or a remake of The Royal Tenenbaums.įor while The Dreamers is surely all those things, one thing it's not is revolutionary. ![]()
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