Making her way to bed, Isabelle leans over to kiss Matthew goodnight, and as she does a candle flickering on the kitchen table catches her long, raven hair on fire. Isabelle and Theo's parents retire for the evening, leaving the three young people to themselves. One evening, they take Matthew home to their parents' rambling apartment for a dinner en famille. Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young American student trawling around Paris during the spring of 1968, is taken under the wing of Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), twins he's met during his nightly devotional sojourns to the Cinémathèque Française. Boy, do we need him now.Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" contains what may be the most startling first kiss in the movies.
Bertolucci provokes audiences instead of pacifying them. But there’s no denying the thrill when the trio - now possessed of a hard-won self-awareness - gets swept up in the street riots and a new world of danger and possibility. The film errs only when it tries for a profundity it can’t support. And the three actors - Green has a startling beauty - provide the canvas for the play of conflicting emotions. Bertolucci and his superb cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti notice everything. Matthew and Isabelle go at it on the kitchen floor while Theo fries eggs and pretends not to notice. The early scenes of playful sexuality - the three in a tub, and Matthew gazing wonderingly up at Isabelle’s crotch as he sucks her toes - take on a toxicity as jealousy kicks in and secrets are revealed. Bertolucci, fighting the stilted script by Gilbert Adair, revels in this atmosphere, especially when Theo is forced by his sister to masturbate to a photo of Marlene Dietrich as punishment for not guessing the name of one of her films. Bertolucci includes clips, from Chaplin and Garbo to the exhilarating moment in Godard’s Band of Outsiders when the lead actors race through the Louvre, a scene Matthew, Isabelle and Theo re-create. The Dreamers, like its three main characters, is drunk on movies. He moves into their apartment - their parents are away for a month - and is pulled into their incestuous games. It’s in this surging atmosphere that Matthew meets Isabelle ( Eva Green) and her twin brother, Theo (Louis Garrel).
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