just saw The Dreamers.... I don't know what to say.

[neoteric lefty]

For those of you who don't know, it is a movie about an American kid studying abroad in France in 1968. He meets up with a brother and sister, who are French, and ends up moving in with them. I missed the 1st 20 mins or so. It was such an odd, yet engrossing movie. The sexual tension between the brother and sister was kind of hard to watch, but it didn't seem incestuous, more like playful. Then the scene when Theo (the brother) wants to watch his sister and the American (Matthew) have sex. Now, that was odd.

The movie was NC-17, and it sure did earn it. I was shot beautifully and as soon as you got over the sock of all the weird sex games (Some friends rented it without knowing what it was all about), you are sucked in. However, the ending seemed rushed and hokey. It didn't seem to fit at all. Oh, well.



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[bigmonkey]

1. I kind of disagree about the ending.

They were all in this kind of languid, neverending space, and then, suddenly, real life with all it's urgent deadlines crashes in on them. I liked the contrast, I felt it spoke directly to the issues in the film. Besides, that was really what was happening in Paris at the time, an intensely political moment, calling for all the split-second decisions that real-time politics calls for.

[neoteric lefty]

2. I like the idea behind the ending but

what I was let down by was the execution. Maybe it was a money issue, or a time issue, but the whole scene seemed out of place with the set and such. It drew me out of the movie. Again, this is just an aesthetic opinion of mine. Overall, I liked the movie.