('You are my first love, my first great love,' Green says to Pitt in The Dreamers, after fucking him on a couch.) 'What is she like in person?' I asked him with a tone that I thought perfectly concealed my fascination with the actress. In a sense-at least a cinematic sense-Pitt deflowered her. The Dreamers was Green's first movie, and the first of the many sex scenes in her career-the most outrageous of which is in 300: Rise of an Empire. Pitt was sitting on the chair, the sun was setting in one of the windows, and Madison Street, which was three stories below us, was clogged with cars. The film stars Michael Pitt, recently seen in the award-winning HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, and with Sandra Bullock in MURDER BY NUMBERS, Eva Green in her feature film debut, and Louis Garrel, who previously appeared in Yolande Zauberman’s LA GUERRE A PARIS.On the penultimate day of the rewrite, I finally brought up Eva Green. We were fusing cinema, politics, music, jazz, rock ‘n roll, sex, philosophy.” “There was something magic in the 60s,” Bertolucci recalls, “in that we were … well, let’s use the word ‘dreaming’. Their love of cinema took them to the birthplace of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), immersing them in a strong international cinema culture. THE DREAMERS strikes a personal chord for both Bertolucci and Adair, for although their paths never crossed, they were both living in Paris at the end of the 60s, experiencing the events against which the film is set.

The screenplay, adapted for the screen from his original novel, is by English author and film critic Gilbert Adair. It marks his third film shot in Paris, following THE CONFORMIST and the Oscar-nominated LAST TANGO IN PARIS. THE DREAMERS was helmed by Bernardo Bertolucci, whose film THE LAST EMPEROR swept the 1987 Academy Awards garnering nine Oscars including Best Director and Best Picture. Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France in the spring of 1968 when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, THE DREAMERS is a story of self-discovery as the three students test each other to see just how far they will go. Here they make their own rules as they experiment with their emotions and sexuality while playing a series of increasingly demanding mind games. Left alone in Paris whilst their parents are on holiday, Isabelle (Eva Green) and her brother Theo (Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young American student, to stay at their apartment.

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