It was as if I had another story in my mind. When Green saw a rough cut of the film, she said she was "quite shocked" and had to look away during the sex scenes she later told an interviewer that for her, "it was as though I was wearing a costume while we were making the film.
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During pre-production, Bertolucci made changes to it: he "peppered the narrative with clips from the films he loves" and dropped homosexual content – including scenes from the novel that depict Matthew and Théo having sex – which he felt was "just too much." After the film was released, he said that it was "faithful to the spirit of the book but not the letter." Įva Green told The Guardian that her agent and her parents begged her not to take the role of Isabelle, concerned that the film – which features full frontal nudity and graphic sex scenes – would cause her career to "have the same destiny as Maria Schneider." The first draft of the screenplay was an adaptation by Gilbert Adair of his own novel, The Holy Innocents.
Matthew tries to stop Théo by kissing him, arguing against violence, but he is shunned by both Théo and Isabelle.Īs Matthew walks away through the chaos, Théo takes Isabelle's hand and hurls a molotov cocktail at a line of police. Later on, Théo joins a small team of protesters preparing molotov cocktails. After a few moments, however, they are woken by a brick being hurled through the window they discover hundreds of students rioting in the streets.Īll three of them are overjoyed and proceed to join the protesters. Wordlessly, she attaches a hose to the gas outlet and lies back down with Théo and Matthew, attempting to commit suicide. After they leave, Isabelle wakes up and discovers the cheque, realising that their parents have found them. They are startled by what they find, but leave them be, departing after leaving a cheque. One morning, Théo and Isabelle's parents arrive home and find the trio naked in bed together. She then surprises them with a makeshift bedsheet fort and they fall asleep in each other's arms. She distances herself from both Théo and Matthew, only to find them next to each other on Théo's bed when an argument between the two turns erotic. Théo retaliates by inviting a companion up to his room, upsetting Isabelle. Matthew and Isabelle leave the house and go on a regular date, which she has not experienced before. The three re-enact a memorable scene from Bande à part by "breaking the world record for running through the Louvre", and Matthew and Théo engage in playful arguments about Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, as well as the subject of Maoism, which Théo fervently believes in.ĭuring this time, Matthew begins to pursue a relationship with Isabelle, separate from Théo. Matthew begins to accept Théo and Isabelle's sexuality and his time living with them soon becomes idyllic.
After Matthew loses at another game, he is seduced to take Isabelle's virginity. After Théo loses at a trivia game, Isabelle sentences him to masturbate to a Marlene Dietrich poster in front of them. Matthew becomes suspicious of their relationship after seeing them sleeping nude together he soon discovers that they accept nudity and sexuality liberally. Matthew accepts, considering them his first French friends. The three bond over a shared love of film.Īfter dinner with their parents, Théo and Isabelle offer Matthew the chance to stay with them while their parents are on a trip. While at the Cinémathèque Française protesting the firing of Henri Langlois, he meets the free-spirited twins Théo and Isabelle. Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963) in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003).Matthew is an American exchange student who has come to Paris to study French. Maybe, too, the screen really was a screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first when they were still new, still fresh, before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us, before they’d been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator until worn-out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist’s cabin. I was one of the insatiables, the ones you’d always find sitting closest to the screen.
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A free masonry of cinephiles…what we’d call “film buffs”. I became a member of what in those days was kind of a free masonry. But it was here that I got my real education. It was the late 60s and I’d come to Paris for a year to study French.
Its images were so powerful, it was like being hypnotized. The movie was Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor. The first time I ever saw a movie at the Cinémathèque française, I thought “only the French… only the French would house a cinema inside a palace”.
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