The inevitable finale: riotous students clashing with police in the streets. The inciting event: the ousting of Henri Langlois from the Cinémathèque Francaise. The Dreamers opens only days after America's infamous glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast if you've had enough of the psychotic fundamentalist hysteria that followed, Bertolucci offers you liberation.īertolucci's mise en scène recreates Paris in the spring of '68. Though it suffers from preciousness, it is also precious in its affirmation of Bertolucci's visual mastery, contemplative themes, and unapologetic NC-17-rated sexuality. Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers is a beautiful, effusive mess of cinema.
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