After watching the movie, a question is circling around my mind. I'm wondering the most about is, why did Isabelle start screaming for Theo all of a sudden while she was going to do it with Matthew? She even pretended like she didn't know Matthew at all, as like was a stranger! Does anybody know the answer?

Overally, it was not a bad movie. Cinematographically it was a good movie, the camera angles were impressive sometimes. The idea giving references to the movies was creative and significant for the movie's course.However, I think, the story was weak. There were disconnections in the story. The plot does not fulfill the expectations of the audience. Compared to the other movies of Bertolucci, the messages given were hazy and loose. Other than that, I did not like the political messages -which were really given too clearly- of the movie such as the idea that favors individualism over collectivism, or raw anti-violence discourse. In the last scene, the movie establishes a cause and effect relation between the violent behaviors of the protesters and the intervention of the police forces. Therefore, in a way, it justifies the police intervention and damages the political legitimacy of the protesting side.

Two words it could describe this movie: "Beautifully Shocking".The film is constantly moving between opposite poles, as is normal in youth, which is displayed as it is: tough, wild, contradictory ..... and beautiful.The events occurred in the Paris of 1968, where glamor and intellectualism went hand in hand. That was a time of change in which culture was still strong enough to get people out to the streets to demonstrate. Beyond all this, Bertolucci focuses on how young people are discovering each other, with a capacity of wonder, freshness, intelligence, ingenuity, sensuality that adults usually do not have.  The movie has that unmistakable flavor of the experience of youth which leaves its mark and is never forget.9,5/10

Against a backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris Matthew, a young American student obsessed with movies, hooks up with a brother and sister,Theo and Isabelle, the twin offspring of a celebrated poet, who share his passion. The friendship rapidly becomes deep and disturbing; the twins seemingly enjoying an incestuous relationship and Theo a bi-sexual disposition towards their new friend. But all is not quite as it appears. These seemingly sophisticated intellectuals live in a bizarre enclosed little world of their own, indulged by wealthy parents and more child-like than the American first assumes. In a film that is bursting with movie in-jokes and references,the trio join in protests at the Cinemateque, replicate the 'Louvre record' from BANDE A PARTE in a scene inter-cut with shots from the original movie and develop a parlour game of "Name the film or pay the forfeit" ,that soon stretches the bounds of taste and decency, once the parents have left for the country.The trio spend most of their time in the large rambling apartment, which begins as charmingly shabby-chic and descends into student-squat squalor, indulging in ever more lurid sexually charged games. Nudity increases as they become insular and the world outside becomes more distant in a way that evokes a cult film of this era,PERFORMANCE. But THE DREAMERS, being a 21st century film,goes further and among several intimate and unsettling scenes that many might find offensive, the trio take a candle-lit bath in a haze of 'exotic cigarette' smoke which lulls them into unconsciousness, to find on awakening that Isabelle has started her menstruation while they have been asleep...and the bathwater has turned red.If the subject matter is an acquired taste then without doubt the film looks wonderful. Paris in 1968 is lovingly recreated; the cars and backgrounds are right, the music includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan, there is much talk of Mao and revolution. The acting is very good, naturalistic and engaging. The leading trio all fit their rolls to perfection and Eva Green as the pretty, pouting, full-busted,long haired Isabelle is the perfect image (cliche?)of a freethinking 1960s femme fatale. THE DREAMERS is a significant movie for me. Watching it for the first time I became intrigued by the homage it paid to Jean-Luc Godard's BANDE A PART, a film of which I previously knew nothing. I sought out the DVD, was entranced by this great movie(and Anna Karina in particular!)and have been hooked on French New Wave movies ever since. Re-watching it two years later I 'get' more of the filmic references, the haunting use of the theme from PIERROT LE FOU and the cameo of Jean-Pierre Leaud among others, but most of all I am struck by how intimate and graphic the relationships are portrayed. Not an easy film to like at times and not a film for all tastes but a brilliant one nonetheless.