Matthew (Michael Pitt), Isabelle (Eva Green), and Theo (Louis Garrel) frolic in their own erotic fantasy world during the 1968 Paris riots in THE DREAMERS
THE DREAMERS (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
Videology Bar & Cinema
308 Bedford Ave.
Saturday, January 2, $5, 12 midnight
718-782-3468
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s sexiopolitical look at Paris in the tumultuous year of 1968 focuses on three individuals: Matthew (Dawson Creek’s Michael Pitt), a shy American studying in France; Theo (French heartthrob Louis Garrel), a cigarette-smoking oh-so-French moody lad; and Isabelle (Penny Dreadful’s Eva Green), Theo’s “twin” who likes to walk around naked and flirt with both Matthew and Theo. The trio acts out scenes from films, plays dangerously erotic games, and drinks a lot of wine as the outside world comes crashing down around them. Green (Casino Royale, Kingdom of Heaven) is mesmerizing in her film debut, Pitt (Funny Games, Seven Psychopaths) reveals that he has few shortcomings, and the NC-17 rating is sure to attract an interesting crowd. And look out for a cameo appearance by Jean-Pierre Léaud playing himself. This is Bertolucci’s third film set in Paris, following The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris, and it’s another winner. (Bertolucci, who is now seventy-four, has made only one film since The Dreamers, the 2012 Italian drama Me and You.) The Dreamers is screening at midnight on January 2 at Videology in Brooklyn; future midnight screenings include Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux on January 15, Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers on January 16, Ken Russell’s Lisztomania on January 22, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s epic Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom on January 29-30.