What you think of this film will largely be down to what you think of the three main characters if you find them interesting people to be with you'll probably love it if you find the to be pretentious bores you won't unfortunately I found my self leaning towards the latter camp. While this is going on the city is in turmoil but the trio barely notice as they are so wrapped up in their own world. It is one such forfeit that begins Isabelle and Matthew's sexual relationship. They spend their time discussing films, enacting scenes from films for the others to guess and when they can't expecting them to perform forfeits of a sexual nature. It is clear that Isabelle and Theo aren't like most twins they have a relationship that is almost incestuous. The next day Isabelle and Theo's parents depart for a month long holiday and the twins invite him to stay. It is raining so he ends up spending the night in the spare room. During the protest Matthew gets talking to Isabelle and later gets invited home for dinner. Also attending are twins Isabelle and Theo although they don't talk to each other until the man in charge of the cinema is fired leading to protests by his supporters. In the summer of 1968 American student Matthew is in Paris he is spending a year there to improve his French he is also a cinephile, spending much of his time at the Cinémathèque Française watching films old and new. Reviewed by Tweekums 6 / 10 Two hours in the company of people who weren't that interesting A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up. With their parents away for a month, they drag him into an orgy of indulgence of all senses, losing all of his and the last of their innocence. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and daughter Isabelle enjoy the good life in his grand Paris home. If it didn't try so hard to be saying something about youth, sex and revolution then it wouldn't have failed so miserably.Paris, spring 1968. I almost feel guilty for not liking it more. The last half hour or so of the film is the weakest part and doesn't seem to fit with the tone of what went on before. He is meant to be the voice of reason and even though he seems a bit dense he comes off all wise and worldly in comparison to the twins. Only Matthew seems to recognize the pretension. The characters are lifeless, naive and arrogant. This is very obviously a European film and I mean that in the worst possible way. An attraction between the boys goes nowhere and when Matthew and Isabelle get down and dirty on the kitchen floor it isn't really sexy at all. The intimate relationship between the twins is supposed to be shocking but is merely curious. Interesting but perplexing is the sexual politics at play between the three. The best scene in the film is when the main characters recreate a dash through the Louvre from A Band Apart. The film in inter-cut with scenes from classic films such as Freaks and Breathless just to name a few. Insulated from the "reality" of the streets the twins "dream" away the days drinking wine, discussing film and playing mind games with each other and with Matthew. The 3 share a passion for film and intellectual discussion and soon Matthew is staying with the twins in their parents' apartment.
Against the backdrop of 1968 Parisian revolution, American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) meets French twins Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel).
Sound promising? Unfortunately, the "reality" of The "Dreamers" is a letdown. Beautiful naked Eva Green and Michael Pitt.