The Dreamers (2003) Full Review

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00:12hey everyone it's me beau i'm back film scene investigation hope you're all doing very well

00:19today i have a new review for you i know you guys like me to review these erotic dramas so

00:26i've got another one here for you today i'm going to be taking a look at the 2003 movie

00:34the dreamers just before we get into this review guys if you haven't already please do consider

00:42subscribing to the channel all the support is greatly appreciated so the dreamers from 2003

00:51was a movie directed by the filmmaker bernardo bertolucci and was based on the novel entitled

00:59the holy innocence by the author gilbert adair the author was also involved with the production

01:08the screenplay to be exact i believe they wrote the initial first draft but over time bertolucci

01:18made several changes as for the plot the story was set in the 1960s and focused on the american

01:27exchange student a guy called matthew who was played by the actor michael pitt now he had arrived in paris

01:36to study the french language but quickly became enamored with french cinema he frequently went to

01:47the movie theater to catch whatever was showing and this is how he eventually met the siblings

01:55theo and isabel played by actors eva green and louis gerald these were two twins that lived with their

02:05parents in this very extravagant apartment in paris they too were fans of cinema and quickly bonded with

02:15matthew all three of them all three of them became very close very quickly they would sit around drink smoke

02:25and discuss cinema even testing their knowledge on one another matthew would soon start living with isabel

02:35theo while their parents were out of town he enjoyed their company so much

02:41yeah it seemed like the you know ideal situation but as time went on matthew started to realize that

02:53there were some strange things going on between the siblings he first noticed how you know touchy

03:01feely they were towards one another you know always hugging and kissing each other and initially matthew didn't

03:10think anything of it but one night after going to the bathroom he ended up looking in on theo and

03:19isabel and found them naked and sleeping on the bed with each other obviously matthew was shocked i mean

03:29rightly so um these guys were brother and sister right what are they doing like yeah yeah i mean he

03:38kind of

03:38freaked out but given he didn't know or have a full grasp you know full understanding of what the situation

03:45was between the two matthew just decided to uh keep quiet i mean i can understand that to a certain

03:53extent

03:54i think it if it was for me in that situation i probably would have confronted the two and been

04:01like what

04:02the hell and you know made a quick exit but um yeah matthew kept quiet he didn't fully understand what

04:09was

04:09going on but he soon found himself getting dragged into these weird sexual encounters what started out as

04:21you know playful innocent fun soon turned into this

04:27sordid sex game amongst all three of them now after watching dreamers it was pretty clear that this

04:36movie was a love letter to the old cinema of the past we saw several clips that were inserted into

04:45the film you know footage of charlie chaplin fred astaire and several others and it i don't know it's

04:53almost like a tribute of sorts with the three main characters theo matthew and isabel they didn't just

05:04love cinema they inhabited it you know into their lives as they frequently you know recited you know

05:13lines of dialogue from several films and then even reenacted scenes the director bernardo bertolucci

05:22obviously infused his love of cinema into the characters that we saw on screen

05:29and you know if you're like me a film buff you know you're into films then i think you would

05:35likely

05:36as well appreciate uh bertolucci's efforts as for the siblings isabel and theo it was obvious that they

05:47were a pair of pompous upper class kids that i don't know lived in their own bubble they had this

05:58forced identity you know fancying themselves as these liberal high art students who actually supported

06:07communism the more i think about it it was like they used this fake persona to

06:17basically shield themselves from the outside world they had created this

06:22fantasy and cinema was a big part of that it was this bohemian liberal

06:31kind of yeah like a fantasy world and once they made friends with matthew and you know they bonded

06:41they then invited matthew into their world now there's no denying that that's what they were doing

06:48they were shielding themselves from the truth but do you ask yourself you know what truth what were they

06:54trying to hide and it became pretty clear to me that what they were hiding was their incestuous

07:04relationship it was like isabel and theo so they just didn't want to face reality the reality that they

07:14were having this sickening sordid relationship and they knew it was wrong and if i mean it's not like

07:23they were proud about it it's not like they wanted to you know tell everyone tell their parents no they

07:30hid it from their parents because they knew it was depraved yet their closeness the bond they had their

07:40i don't know almost like codependency on one another it was too strong to break now what was

07:48very interesting for me was that after watching the dreamers i kind of had this

07:54self-reflective moment where i realized that what theo and isabel were doing living vicariously through

08:05cinema that's kind of what i'm doing now of course i'm doing it for completely different reasons than

08:15those guys i mean those guys were trying to hide an incestuous relationship for me personally i'm just so

08:20sick of the cultural stagnation that we seem to be living in right now the corruption the politics the

08:28wars just um everything right now in the 21st century especially from covid onwards uh it's just

08:38yeah it's very bleak and of course there's always hope in the future and things will change

08:43but as of right now yeah i mean entertainment alone is just yeah and so that's one of the reasons

08:52why

08:53i do this channel you know to celebrate the cinema of the past but also yeah just uh i mean

09:02watching old

09:03films and stuff like that yeah i need that i need that escapism and in a way for different reasons

09:12but

09:13it's the same as theo and isabel i'm doing exactly what those guys are doing thematically the dreamers

09:23explored police brutality for the various clashes that we saw happening on the streets of paris

09:30there can be no denying that this movie painted a pretty bleak picture of french authority

09:40you know making them out to be violent and heavy-handed but what i found interesting was how bertolucci and

09:50the

09:51film cinematographer fabio sincetti were able to make those chaotic scenes feel and look so compelling

10:01and poetic from the fire bombs to the damaged cars on the street you know bertolucci was able to

10:10show beauty even in a very ugly situation and that leads me on nicely to talking about the overall look

10:21of this film as i said the dreamers was set in the 1960s and clearly the filmmakers went out their

10:29way to

10:30create a authentic period piece i was impressed with the attention to detail that i saw on screen

10:41and yeah with all the clothing and the fashion the cars yeah it felt very authentic it can't be denied

10:49and

10:50i think as well because of the efforts the lengths that the filmmakers went to to create that vibe and

10:58atmosphere it did make it very easy for myself to kind of get immersed into the story and yeah that's

11:08one

11:08thing about bertolucci's movies i mean they are controversial but even thinking back to last tango in paris

11:16a movie that i've uh reviewed for this channel that movie yes very graphic at times and you know a

11:24lot of

11:24nudity but paris i mean it looked so authentic and so beautiful and uh yeah clearly bertolucci has a uh

11:37an eye for beauty on screen i also should quickly mention the film's soundtrack that featured some classic

11:47artists like jimmy hendrix the doors and bob dylan having all of that music inserted into the film

11:57it certainly helped create that artsy bohemian student lifestyle that bertolucci was going for so

12:08yeah it worked very well uh great selection of songs now when it comes to the performances

12:14all three main actors i thought had some wonderful chemistry they had this natural rapport with one

12:24another that uh really added a lot of realism to the story with a film like this where your three

12:33main

12:33characters you know are central it is pivotal to make sure you cast the right actors for the right roles

12:42and

12:43uh yeah the casting agent did a fantastic job here i thought uh all three eva green michael pitt and

12:52lewis garao they really kind of bounced off one another and yeah great job individually i thought

13:01actor michael pitt playing the american exchange student matthew a guy who was quite naive

13:09and generally made some bad decisions and trusted the wrong people you know there were times when

13:18when i thought michael pitt's performance did come off a little pretentious but then i had to kind of remind

13:28myself that that's exactly what the intention was you know to have this pretentious character so

13:38yeah he did a great job and you know michael pitt's an actor that i've thought should have become a

13:45bigger star than he is i've loved him in the movie bully i've reviewed that before on this channel

13:52also uh boardwalk empire the first two seasons him playing i believe it's jimmy yeah a great great

14:01character and um yeah he really showed that uh he was quite versatile actor lewis garao did a solid job

14:10playing the manipulative and destructive man theo the brother of isabel a very flawed individual

14:21yeah this guy fancied himself as an intellectual you know but ultimately he had very little life

14:34experience so yeah i kind of found that uh quite ironic yeah ultimately i wasn't really a fan of the

14:44theo character and that's no criticism on lewis gaule he did a you know said a solid job but i

14:52just

14:52thought the character didn't really have any kind of redeeming qualities about him especially later on

15:00when he forced matthew to sleep with his sister i mean what an absolute weirdo when it comes to

15:12eva green she was the standout in this movie it was very clear as soon as she appeared on screen

15:21that

15:23she was the most kind of charismatic and yeah she was she was the star she did a great job

15:30you know

15:31playing a woman who was dangerously seductive and someone that uh unless you like drama someone that

15:40you probably wouldn't want to hook up with now there were tons of new scenes in this movie that's

15:48surprising it is a bertolucci film after all but a lot of that was around eva green you know full

15:57frontal

15:57nudity and yeah i mean when you really break it down and if you've watched enough behind the scenes

16:06what goes on on set yeah it must have been pretty hard to kind of do those scenes fully naked

16:13with tons of you know people camera crews and all that kind of stuff hanging about i understand that

16:22eva green's agents at the time insisted that she shouldn't take this movie due to all the nudity

16:31but i mean ultimately it worked out for eva because this was a great film she was a star as

16:38i said you

16:38know she really stood out from both michael pitt and louis corral and yeah i mean she did a great

16:46job

16:46and so dislikes for the dreamers from 2003 my biggest dislike for the film would have to be

16:56the sex scenes that for me unfortunately just lingered on for way too long now going into this film

17:06i fully expected to see nudity yeah i mean that was no surprise and i haven't actually got an issue

17:16with the level of nudity and all that kind of stuff my issue really is with the just the kind

17:24of

17:24lingering and the actual duration of these sex scenes you know while it was an interesting story

17:29don't get me wrong simulating sex and masturbation all that stuff kind of just dragged on and uh

17:39i just think it could have it could have been trimmed back it didn't really need to go there i

17:45mean

17:46more for me but uh you know i came here for the drama you know for the story not for

17:54the nudity and if

17:55that was the case i'd just you know go watch porn some of those scenes they just went on for

18:01minutes

18:02at a time you know to the point where i was like you know can we get to the next

18:07scene you know we get

18:08it we understand now let's move on and yeah just the duration of that stuff it was just excessive

18:15i can only assume that the filmmakers decided to you know linger and all that stuff to yeah titillate

18:25the audience i really can't think of another reason why they would just linger on that stuff for so long

18:32i will re-watch this movie again at some point but when i do i'll be sure to uh use

18:39the skip button

18:40another dislike i had and this was a minor one was that i thought the movie kind of ended pretty

18:50abruptly now in the last 10 minutes of the film we ended up seeing the parents of isabel and theo

18:59making a surprise return from their travels only to find their children and matthew naked

19:10and what looked like to be the aftermath of some threesome the parents were of course shocked and

19:21didn't really know how to react and for me it was kind of while it was tragic it was also

19:30kind of

19:30funny at the same time the guys were fast asleep they had no idea that their secret was out

19:38and yeah i mean well just when you thought that they might wake up and there would be this

19:44big confrontation the parents just ended up leaving i was kind of confused i was expecting

19:51someone to to wake up or maybe they would wake their own children up and you know confront them

19:56about what the hell was going on but they didn't and quickly a riot broke out outside the apartment

20:04the guys went downstairs and that was pretty much the end of the film now i said this was a

20:10minor spoiler

20:11it didn't didn't ruin it for me but i did think that there was more story to tell and the

20:18fact that

20:19the filmmakers kind of teased this confrontation that didn't actually happen yeah i was a little bit

20:29let down by that and so ratings for the dreamers from 2003 i'm going to be rating this movie

20:38a 5.9 out of 10 the dreamers was a surreal erotic drama from the legendary bernardo bertolucci

20:50that explored some of the kind of worst taboos in society with the incestuous relationship going on

21:02or the secrets and lies this definitely was a very provocative film that had some interesting

21:10aspects to it but not a film that i think holds mass appeal it's clear that bertolucci

21:19wanted to make this thoughtful and compelling film that explored sexuality and politics and cinema

21:32but i do think the story did get sidetracked with some of the absurd sexual moments i do think that

21:42the

21:43director leaned too heavily into all of the sexuality and all the kind of explicit content

21:51and uh yeah i mean ultimately that stuff as i said it did drag on and uh did start to

21:58lose my interest

22:00if you've seen the dreamers then please let me know your thoughts and memories in the comment section below

22:07for you guys out there who haven't seen this one yet it is a recommendation from me i think

22:15if you're a fan of cinema and given if you're watching this and you're a subscriber to my channel

22:21they're absolutely uh yeah you you'll like this movie for sure definitely fans of eva green uh if you

22:30haven't checked this one out yet definitely do because uh i haven't seen you know all of her films but

22:36i would say this would be a career highlight for sure i mean she really committed to the role and

22:41also michael pitt i'm a big fan of that guy i think that uh he said should have had a

22:46bigger career

22:48but yeah he's definitely very good in this film too and well that's all from me today guys i do

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