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In the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, Ismael (Louis Garrel of DANS PARIS, THE DREAMERS ) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier of SWIMMING POOL ) enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice (Clotilde Hesme of REGULAR LOVERS). When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love. For Ismael, this means negotiating through the advances of Julie°19;s sister (Chiara Mastroianni of PERSEPOLIS) and a young college student (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet of STRAYED); one of which may offer him redemption . (www.apple.com....lovesongs/)
And so: Louis Garrel , he of the massive tousled head and melancholic Gallic gaze, stars as Ismaël, who's been together with his girlfriend Julie Ludivine Sagnier for eight years. The two are still in love but are concerned about his long hours (he works at a newspaper) and general relationship malaise. To keep things fresh, they've introduced a third person into their romance (ah, France ) â Ismaël's coworker Alice Clotilde Hesme ). This, Julie confides to her mother on the sidelines of a family dinner, only seems to be exacerbating things. And then. Julie dies. Ismaël is a wreck, and Julie's family members struggles to keep tabs on him while dealing with their own grief. He eventually wavers towards finding comfort in the arms of a persistent, smitten high school boy Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet ). Did we mention this is a musical? The characters continually break into brief, pop-influenced song, sometimes peppered with amusingly unmusical vulgarities. Only a few of the tunes are in any way memorable, the best being a discussion of the trials of the ménage à trois that rises to a joyously 60sesque la-la chorus (blog.ifctv.com....g/2007/05/)
It is the story of Francois (played by the director's actor son, Louis Garrel ), who has dodged his compulsory military service and who aspires to be a poet, and it is about how he is torn by the conflicting desires to make love or to make revolution . And while attentive viewers may recall that the lanky Garrel fils previously played a young man caught up in the events of '68 in Bernardo Bertolucci 's The Dreamers , whereas that movie used history as the backdrop for a nostalgic-romantic fantasy, Regular Lovers is like a long, intoxicating drag from a revolutionary pipe lit 37 years ago and still smoldering today. This movie gets into your bloodstream and it lingers there. (blogs.laweekly.com....s/2005/09/)
That last scene recalls Scott Coffey 's 2005 portrait of a Hollywood starlet hopeful Ellie Parker , but the film as a whole has more in common with Mitsuo Yanagimachi 's Who's Camus Anyway, which screened at the festival two years ago and which also follows the folie à plusieurs of a big production. Actors are inherently dramatic people, argues Actresses, because they spend their lives immersed in grand gestures and so can only communicate that way in real life , no matter how silly it seems to the normal population. Marcelline in particular has trouble separating the feelings of her character (who she starts to hallucinate in the form of Valeria Golino from her own, and so may or may not have fallen for the actor Louis Garrel playing her character's on-stage love interest, a relationship exacerbated by her own desperation to find love. (blog.ifctv.com....g/2007/10/)
For me, the DVD's 52-minute Bernardo Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers ' was much more engaging than most making-of documentaries. There s something fascinating about Bertolucci and the way he fluidly switches from English to French to Italian in dealing with cast and crew. Watch for the sequence where Eva Green repeatedly starts walking when instrumental music begins, even though she has been directed to wait for the singer's voice the exasperated director says the word for voice to the young actress in four languages. Also in the documentary, notice how jittery Louis Garrel gets when he sees the explosive power of the faux Molotov cocktail he's going to throw. (homevideo.about.com....ersa_2.htm)
Louis Garrel has a long French nose and dark-eyed intensity. His fine acting is overshadowed by Bertolucci's discovery of Eva Green , a theater-trained actress in her first feature film. Gorgeous and irrepressible, Isabelle convincingly reveals an insecure self behind a confident façade, the twin who does not know how to separate from her other half. Green has physical allure like no one else on the screen today-she is movie-star thin but also voluptuous, with pale skin, dark intelligent eyes, and long dark hair. She is certainly worth gazing at. (worldfilm.about.com....mers_2.htm)
I see The Dreamers as a coming-of-age story about a 20-year-old American (Michael Pitt) who is living in Paris in 1968. He religiously attends movies at the Cinématèque Française, but one day he goes there to find it shut down. A political demonstration is in progress, during which he meets a set of French twins (Eva Green and Louis Garrel ) his own age. The film chronicles the relationship that develops among the three young people as they explore their sexuality. They are so wrapped up in themselves that they are caught off guard by the unfolding political events. (homevideo.about.com....rsDVDa.htm)
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