Bernardo Bertolucci’s Nc-17 masterpiece “The Dreamers” is receiving a 4K restoration re-release to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The film made history as the first Fox Searchlight Nc-17 theatrical release in 2004, with then-president Peter Rice comparing “The Dreamers” to Bertolucci’s other infamously controversial film, “Last Tango in Paris.”
Bertolucci said at the time that “The Dreamers” being released stateside in its original cut was a relief, adding, “After all, an orgasm is better than a bomb.”
“The Dreamers” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and had its U.S. debut at Sundance 2004. Future Bond cast member Eva Green made her credited big screen debut (after a bit part in “The Piano Teacher”) with the erotic psychological drama following a trio of cinephile students in 1968 Paris during the riots. Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel co-starred alongside Green.
The newly-restored version of the feature does not yet have a U.
Bertolucci said at the time that “The Dreamers” being released stateside in its original cut was a relief, adding, “After all, an orgasm is better than a bomb.”
“The Dreamers” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and had its U.S. debut at Sundance 2004. Future Bond cast member Eva Green made her credited big screen debut (after a bit part in “The Piano Teacher”) with the erotic psychological drama following a trio of cinephile students in 1968 Paris during the riots. Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel co-starred alongside Green.
The newly-restored version of the feature does not yet have a U.
- 3/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Restored in 4K for its 20th anniversary last year, Bernardo Bertolucci’s penultimate feature The Dreamers is now arriving on a new 4K Uhd disc this summer. Marking Eva Green’s first film role, the romantic drama set during the 1968 Paris student riots also stars Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. While a U.S. release has not been unveiled yet, the region-free 4K Uhd set featuring the restoration completed by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna under the supervision of director of photography, Fabio Cianchetti, will debut in the UK on May 13.
Here’s the synopsis:
The Dreamers is set in Paris, Spring of 1968: the city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française.
Here’s the synopsis:
The Dreamers is set in Paris, Spring of 1968: the city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française.
- 3/29/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Icon Film has released a brand new trailer for the 4K restoration of Bernardo Bertolucci’s modern classic ‘The Dreamers’.
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew, an American student, to stay with them in their Parisian apartment, what begins as a casual friendship transforms into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off-limits, and anything is possible…
From Academy Award-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci, the original cut of modern classic The Dreamers has been remastered for its 20th anniversary in stunning 4K. The restoration was completed by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna under the supervision of director of photography, Fabio Cianchetti.
Set against the tumultuous background of the ’68 Paris student riots, experience this unforgettable love letter to cinema and the French New Wave like never before. Starring Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel (Little Women), and BAFTA winner Eva Green in her daring cinematic debut.
Also in trailers – Teaser trailer...
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew, an American student, to stay with them in their Parisian apartment, what begins as a casual friendship transforms into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off-limits, and anything is possible…
From Academy Award-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci, the original cut of modern classic The Dreamers has been remastered for its 20th anniversary in stunning 4K. The restoration was completed by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna under the supervision of director of photography, Fabio Cianchetti.
Set against the tumultuous background of the ’68 Paris student riots, experience this unforgettable love letter to cinema and the French New Wave like never before. Starring Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel (Little Women), and BAFTA winner Eva Green in her daring cinematic debut.
Also in trailers – Teaser trailer...
- 3/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Leading Indian producer Subhash Ghai has joined forces with Rome-based Navala Prods. to launch biographical drama “Osho: Lord of the Full Moon.” The film will be structured as a large-budget India-Italy co-venture.
The film’s focus is the controversial Indian mystic Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who died in 1990. He proposed alternative rules for living and self-improvement. His 600 books remain hugely popular best-sellers, and he was recently the subject of six-part Netflix Original documentary series “Wild, Wild Country.”
The narrative film will contain action from the time that India gained independence from British colonial rule, as well as more poetic flashbacks. Beside Osho, the other main character of the film is a female TV journalist who puts her career at stake trying to discover if the guru is a con man, or an enlightened genius. Answering this question changes her life.
The film will be directed by Italy-based...
The film’s focus is the controversial Indian mystic Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who died in 1990. He proposed alternative rules for living and self-improvement. His 600 books remain hugely popular best-sellers, and he was recently the subject of six-part Netflix Original documentary series “Wild, Wild Country.”
The narrative film will contain action from the time that India gained independence from British colonial rule, as well as more poetic flashbacks. Beside Osho, the other main character of the film is a female TV journalist who puts her career at stake trying to discover if the guru is a con man, or an enlightened genius. Answering this question changes her life.
The film will be directed by Italy-based...
- 5/13/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
It shouldn’t be said that eating healthy is considered a “trend,” but over the last handful of years the rise is popularity of organic produce, meats, and other foods has reached peak levels. More and more restaurants, even fast food joints, are cutting out genetically altered foods, opting instead for more natural, organically sourced foods for their meals. It’s a truly great change in culture that appears to be here to stay.
However, what happens when the fear of non-organic items, even medicine, becomes the source of obsession? That’s the base level description of a new thriller, of sorts, from director Saverio Costanzo, entitled Hungry Hearts. Starring Adam Driver and the always impeccable Alba Rohrwacher, the film tells the story of Jude and Mina, a couple who we see go from meeting for the first time while being stuck in a Chinese restaurant’s bathroom to ultimately...
However, what happens when the fear of non-organic items, even medicine, becomes the source of obsession? That’s the base level description of a new thriller, of sorts, from director Saverio Costanzo, entitled Hungry Hearts. Starring Adam Driver and the always impeccable Alba Rohrwacher, the film tells the story of Jude and Mina, a couple who we see go from meeting for the first time while being stuck in a Chinese restaurant’s bathroom to ultimately...
- 6/5/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
There’s a big Polanski vibe to the trailer for Hungry Hearts, a New York-set thriller from Italian director Saverio Costanzo. Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher both won acting prizes for the film at the most recent Venice Film Festival, and the trailer is plastered with quotes from the more positive notices the film received. (You can read Sound On Sight’s Tiff review of the film here.)
Driver and Rohrwacher star as a young married couple who have a loving start to their union but end up in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child. Glimpses of regular Bertolucci-collaborator Fabio Cianchetti’s cinematography prove the most tantalising aspect of the trailer below. IFC Films will release Hungry Hearts in North American territories early next year.
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The post Unnerving trailer for Venice prize winner ‘Hungry Hearts’, starring Adam Driver appeared first on Sound On Sight.
Driver and Rohrwacher star as a young married couple who have a loving start to their union but end up in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child. Glimpses of regular Bertolucci-collaborator Fabio Cianchetti’s cinematography prove the most tantalising aspect of the trailer below. IFC Films will release Hungry Hearts in North American territories early next year.
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The post Unnerving trailer for Venice prize winner ‘Hungry Hearts’, starring Adam Driver appeared first on Sound On Sight.
- 11/10/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Unhappy Together: Bertolucci’s Muted Return to the Director’s Seat
Seemingly against the odds, wheelchair bound Bernardo Bertolucci arrives with his first directorial effort, Me and You, in a decade, his last being the controversial 2003 film, The Dreamers. Also of note, it’s the first Italian language film Bertolucci’s made in thirty years, adding additional significance to this late work from the master provocateur. Yet, as arresting as its visuals are, paired with an odd mix of youthful soundtrack selections, the film never elevates beyond a sometimes ungainly and trifling exploration of themes and relationships exhibited more daringly and memorably in other works. Creative child artists recovering from years of drug abuse and the specter of incest amongst families of the privileged class promise a thickening soup, yet never congeal into anything more than a basic broth of domestic bonds.
Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) is an introverted 14 year...
Seemingly against the odds, wheelchair bound Bernardo Bertolucci arrives with his first directorial effort, Me and You, in a decade, his last being the controversial 2003 film, The Dreamers. Also of note, it’s the first Italian language film Bertolucci’s made in thirty years, adding additional significance to this late work from the master provocateur. Yet, as arresting as its visuals are, paired with an odd mix of youthful soundtrack selections, the film never elevates beyond a sometimes ungainly and trifling exploration of themes and relationships exhibited more daringly and memorably in other works. Creative child artists recovering from years of drug abuse and the specter of incest amongst families of the privileged class promise a thickening soup, yet never congeal into anything more than a basic broth of domestic bonds.
Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) is an introverted 14 year...
- 7/2/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Solid Ground: Crialese’s Heartfelt Message Movie
In his fourth feature film, Emanuele Crialese tackles issues of immigration and the inhumanity that transpires from man-made laws in Terraferma, a film that just as scrappily begs one to look past the heavy-handed message to be moved at the plight of the individuals it depicts. And, for those sentimentally inclined, those moments may be quite easy to forgive, even if they’re increasingly hard to ignore in its final lead up to the grand finale. Fortunately, there’s a poetic rhythm to the arresting visual compositions that couch on magical realism, and its bittersweet melancholic tone, no matter how bluntly delivered, is still an effectively realized portrait of tenuous humanity.
On Linosa, a small island off the coast of Italy, Filippo (Filippo Pucillo) is the third generation of a family of fishermen, and the industry has slowly dwindled into nothing, leaving his remaining family beleaguered.
In his fourth feature film, Emanuele Crialese tackles issues of immigration and the inhumanity that transpires from man-made laws in Terraferma, a film that just as scrappily begs one to look past the heavy-handed message to be moved at the plight of the individuals it depicts. And, for those sentimentally inclined, those moments may be quite easy to forgive, even if they’re increasingly hard to ignore in its final lead up to the grand finale. Fortunately, there’s a poetic rhythm to the arresting visual compositions that couch on magical realism, and its bittersweet melancholic tone, no matter how bluntly delivered, is still an effectively realized portrait of tenuous humanity.
On Linosa, a small island off the coast of Italy, Filippo (Filippo Pucillo) is the third generation of a family of fishermen, and the industry has slowly dwindled into nothing, leaving his remaining family beleaguered.
- 8/5/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In the press notes for Me and You (Io e Te) director and co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci says that since coming to terms with the fact he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to make another film. Serving as his first in nine years, and reading between the lines, Me and You plays like a film from a director merely trying to figure out if he can still do it. As such, he's managed to prove he can still make a film, but not a very compelling film.
Me and You is based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, centering on Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old outsider who skips out on a school field trip to live in the basement of his apartment building for a week to get away from those that just don't seem to understand him.
Me and You is based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, centering on Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old outsider who skips out on a school field trip to live in the basement of his apartment building for a week to get away from those that just don't seem to understand him.
- 5/23/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
While it doesn't quite reach the artistic heights of his best work, "Besieged" marks a return to the kind of intimate, fundamental filmmaking that Bernardo Bertolucci had abandoned for his more elaborate and not always successful epics.
The payoff is an intriguing if somewhat plot-deprived, lyrical pas de deux between a reclusive English pianist and a female African refugee who meet in Italy after crossing very different paths.
Accomplished performances by leads David Thewlis and Thandie Newton, combined with its will-they-or-won't-they percolating tease, could help this Fine Line Features release find an appreciative art house audience.
Collaborating on the screenplay with his wife, filmmaker Clare Peploe -- which was based on the James Lasdun short story, "The Siege" -- Bertolucci has created a vivid emotional landscape in a daunting Roman villa where the eccentric Mr. Kinsky (Thewlis) takes refuge behind his grand piano.
Enter Shandurai, a young woman who fled her politically oppressive African homeland to study medicine at night school while earning room and board by cleaning Mr. Kinsky's dusty, inherited home.
Gradually, he is smitten by the smart, beguiling Shandurai and one day blurts out his feelings for her. Not taking the revelation too well, she informs him that if he truly cares for her, he'll help free her incarcerated husband.
Reluctantly deciding to stay on despite the potentially awkward conditions, Shandurai soon finds herself becoming attracted to her rather odd employer and his haunting musical compositions. But as those feelings begin to crystallize, Mr. Kinsky's villa is steadily being depleted of its antique heirlooms as he quietly makes some considerable sacrifices to prove his unconditional love for her.
In some ways reminiscent of Bertolucci's notorious "Last Tango in Paris" minus the explicit carnal element, "Besieged" again finds a man and a woman alone together (and apart) in an imposing, ultimately empty house. Here, however, they're symbolically kept at a distance by a dramatic winding staircase that neatly reflects their own labyrinthian emotional states.
The film works best when it stays within the boundaries of those compelling interiors. Less successful are a series of flashbacks and/or dream sequences set in Shandurai's homeland accompanied by the constant presence of a shaman-like, wizened African storyteller. While undeniably exotic, the scenes ultimately distract from rather than adding anything significant to the proceedings.
Certainly little additional set dressing is required when you have two performances as delicately and intricately rendered as those of Newton and Thewlis, who excel at conveying intellectually contained vulnerability. They manage to keep things involving despite the occasional dips in dramatic tension.
Also putting in virtuoso performances are cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti, and frequent Bertolucci collaborators, production designer Gianni Silvestri and costume designer Metka Kosak, whose visual contributions are important characters in their own right.
Composer Jacopo Quadri does a nimble job reconciling the seemingly opposing strains of classical piano and African rhythms.
BESIEGED
Fine Line Features
A Fiction Films & Navert Film Production in association with Mediaset
Director:Bernardo Bertolucci
Screenwriters:Bernardo Bertolucci, Clare Peploe
Based on a story by:James Lasdun
Producer:Massimo Cortesi
Director of photography:Fabio Cianchetti
Production designer:Gianni Silvestri
Editor:Jacopo Quadri
Costume designer:Metka Kosak
Music:Alessio Vlad
Color/stereo
Cast:
Shandurai:Thandie Newton
Mr. Kinsky:David Thewlis
Agostino:Claudio Santamaria
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The payoff is an intriguing if somewhat plot-deprived, lyrical pas de deux between a reclusive English pianist and a female African refugee who meet in Italy after crossing very different paths.
Accomplished performances by leads David Thewlis and Thandie Newton, combined with its will-they-or-won't-they percolating tease, could help this Fine Line Features release find an appreciative art house audience.
Collaborating on the screenplay with his wife, filmmaker Clare Peploe -- which was based on the James Lasdun short story, "The Siege" -- Bertolucci has created a vivid emotional landscape in a daunting Roman villa where the eccentric Mr. Kinsky (Thewlis) takes refuge behind his grand piano.
Enter Shandurai, a young woman who fled her politically oppressive African homeland to study medicine at night school while earning room and board by cleaning Mr. Kinsky's dusty, inherited home.
Gradually, he is smitten by the smart, beguiling Shandurai and one day blurts out his feelings for her. Not taking the revelation too well, she informs him that if he truly cares for her, he'll help free her incarcerated husband.
Reluctantly deciding to stay on despite the potentially awkward conditions, Shandurai soon finds herself becoming attracted to her rather odd employer and his haunting musical compositions. But as those feelings begin to crystallize, Mr. Kinsky's villa is steadily being depleted of its antique heirlooms as he quietly makes some considerable sacrifices to prove his unconditional love for her.
In some ways reminiscent of Bertolucci's notorious "Last Tango in Paris" minus the explicit carnal element, "Besieged" again finds a man and a woman alone together (and apart) in an imposing, ultimately empty house. Here, however, they're symbolically kept at a distance by a dramatic winding staircase that neatly reflects their own labyrinthian emotional states.
The film works best when it stays within the boundaries of those compelling interiors. Less successful are a series of flashbacks and/or dream sequences set in Shandurai's homeland accompanied by the constant presence of a shaman-like, wizened African storyteller. While undeniably exotic, the scenes ultimately distract from rather than adding anything significant to the proceedings.
Certainly little additional set dressing is required when you have two performances as delicately and intricately rendered as those of Newton and Thewlis, who excel at conveying intellectually contained vulnerability. They manage to keep things involving despite the occasional dips in dramatic tension.
Also putting in virtuoso performances are cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti, and frequent Bertolucci collaborators, production designer Gianni Silvestri and costume designer Metka Kosak, whose visual contributions are important characters in their own right.
Composer Jacopo Quadri does a nimble job reconciling the seemingly opposing strains of classical piano and African rhythms.
BESIEGED
Fine Line Features
A Fiction Films & Navert Film Production in association with Mediaset
Director:Bernardo Bertolucci
Screenwriters:Bernardo Bertolucci, Clare Peploe
Based on a story by:James Lasdun
Producer:Massimo Cortesi
Director of photography:Fabio Cianchetti
Production designer:Gianni Silvestri
Editor:Jacopo Quadri
Costume designer:Metka Kosak
Music:Alessio Vlad
Color/stereo
Cast:
Shandurai:Thandie Newton
Mr. Kinsky:David Thewlis
Agostino:Claudio Santamaria
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 5/20/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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