The Dreamers

Name: The Dreamers
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Released: 2003

Bernardo Bertolucci

2003

4.40

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When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

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Rolling Stone
The Dreamers may go slack when you most want it to soar, but it also seduces with eroticism and resonates with ideas.
70
The A.V. Club
The Dreamers is a universal story, one that captures the thrill of discovering culture, sex, and politics, and the painful twinge of learning that those worlds aren't enough.
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New York Magazine (Vulture)
He doesn’t entirely succeed, but the attempt has poignancy: As uneven as much of his recent work has been, Bertolucci's still in love with the movies, and his ardor--if not always the ends he puts it to--is exhilarating.
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Film Threat
It wasn't as good as the films it cites, but at least it didn't bore me.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The film's real failure is that neither the story nor the characters capture the zeitgeist that Bertolucci theoretically set out to celebrate.
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Variety
The whole spirit of rebellion, passion and protest that should be a driving force for the characters plays more like a cultivated affectation.
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Entertainment Weekly
In The Dreamers, Bertolucci wants to take us back to a more revolutionary time, but mostly he ends up recalling the faded revolution of his own glory days.
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The New Yorker
Bertolucci is trying hard to shock us with this stuff, but, for all the perversities and the abundant nudity, the movie has an air of inconsequence about it. [9 February 2004, p. 74]

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