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Review:
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May 1968, Paris, France was the scene of a sort-of "play
revolution" which was kicked off by the French government’s
removal of Henri Langlois from his leadership position at the
Cinematheque francaise.
Now the Cinematheque was a government-run movie theater, which
specialized in playing old movies at really cheap prices, So a lot
of students with no money would waste away the hours soaking up
the images on the silver screen.
So when Langlois was fired from his job, there were the
abovementioned protests, and here an expatriate college student
named Matthew(Michael Pitt) meets a set of fraternal twins named
Theo(Louis Garrel ) and Isabelle(Eva Green), whom he had only seen
in the theater. They are very beautiful and they invite Matthew to
share their world, which is going to be freer not because the
revolution has come and everything is happening on the streets,
but because Mommy and Daddy are going on vacation and they have
this huge flat to themselves.
So do our three heroes go off to save the world? Of course not,
they hang out, talk about movie trivia and have a lot of sex,
which is why this flick got an NC-17. We get to see penises and
pubic hair, and it all fits in perfectly with the rest of the
movie. Only except for the prettiness of the thing, nothing all
that much happens outside of the sex and we get a picture of three
immature people trying to free themselves of the shackles of
childhood.
Bertolucci, has produced some of the greatest movies of all
time, but this is not one of them. That doesn’t mean that it’s BAD
or anything. It holds our interest and Ms. Green is going to be
one of the bigger stars of the ‘00z when all is said and done.
Same with Pitt, who looks like Leo DiCaprio’s brother.
Go see it, even if it’s smutty.
Eric Lurio
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