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Dreamers, The

If you're looking for a movie that will make you sweat under your collar, have you question the strong sexual appetite, seductive mind games and psychologically disturbing nature in which the three central characters are involved in, then The Dreamers is your movie.

Director Bernardo Bertolucci's movie is consuming. On one level it captures your attention to the surrounding beauty of the city. On the other, it turns one's stomach a thousand different ways with its premise. Either way, it's an astonishing movie.

Matthew (Michael Pitt) is an American studying in Paris during the 1968 student riots. He meets Isabelle (Eva Green) and her brother Theo (Louis Garrel), who share a common interest and most of all, a passion for movies. Their acquaintance leads to friendship and an offering to stay at their home. The three soon take part in an unethical and highly erotic sexual journey where no line seems wrong to cross.

Uninhibited and daring are Michael Pitt, Eva Green and Louis Garrel. To be completely vulnerable on the screen and let one's body be exposed to such intimate details is courageous, to say the least, but to pull it off with exceptional acting is brilliant! 

This is the original uncut NC-17 version. DVD extras include feature commentary by director Bernardo Bertolucci, writer Gilbert Adair and producer Jeremy Thomas, Bertolucci makes The Dreamers documentary, Outside the Window: events in France, May, 1968 featurette, Michael Pitt music video Hey Joe directed by Bertolucci and theatrical trailer.

The Dreamers is perhaps one of the steamiest and most controversial movies I've seen in awhile. With everything this movie snuck up and hinted on, the ending was quite a shocker.

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

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