Die Träumer (2003)

Die Träumer: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor. A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the ’68 Paris student riots.

“Paris, May 1968. Revolution breaks out and the world seems to be in a critical turning point, but inside the four walls of an apartment, three youngsters experience their very own revolution.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYes, itu0026#39;s true. In the year 2004, one of the best cinematic experiences is offered by Bertolucci. Many are those whou0026#39;d thought that he had nothing more to give, but with THE DREAMERS, the creator is reborn and next to his heroes he witnesses again the passage from adolescence and innocence to the age of responsibilities. A great fan of cinema himself, he doesnu0026#39;t hesitate to pay a number of tributes, just like Godard used to do in the past and Tarantino very recently. As he puts his view into the eyes of his protagonists, the girl and the boys seem to live inside the movies they adore. Theyu0026#39;re playing with lines from known films, they imitate characters, they put themselves into the sequences they love.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDespite their young age, all three actors not only do they show that theyu0026#39;re worth of starring in a Bertolucci film, but they also go even further giving in every scene the necessary vividness and realistic tension. Ignoring the cosmogony taking place in the streets, they surrender to their own cosmogonic changes, to the wild sexual awakening, to the game between friendship and love, pleasure and pain. Eventually they commit themselves to the struggle between the game itself and real life. And thatu0026#39;s where the heroes violently return in the thrilling final sequences in order to face their duty towards history.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTHE DREAMERS is by far one the best motion pictures of the year, so daring but at the same time so energetic that seems able to touch anyone as a pure and romantic confession of a great filmmaker.”