Exactly. This movie is about cinema and about sex: how could it possibly be wrong? :-) But yes, I admit I'm too biased to judge it fairly. But the beginning monologue is just captivating: why do you sit in the first row, at the cinema? To catch the images when they are still fresh, and before than the others - oh yeah!
Take a horror movie: maybe it's a great film, but hardly ever you'll dream, you wish you were there - right inside the movie. Well, with "The dreamers" it could be the opposite: regardless from the quality of the movie, you watch it and just wish you were there - living with those beautiful people, in such a stimulating environment, culturally and politically.
In other words, you see "The Dreamers" and you start dreaming. Well, of course that does not make of it a great movie, necessarily - but it's a pretty good start, I'd say.
Yes, the movie is about love (lust, maybe, sex), but also about getting along well with people who are right for you. Not friends, not necessarily friends, but interesting folk, who maybe won't last forever, but who help you in doing what you like, thinking what you think, going where is good for you. And I'm not saying that the cultural environment and the people depicted in the film are the right ones for everybody, but what I say is that watching this film made me feel I'm missing the right company, the right people around me (I'd say, a sort of cultural loneliness), exactly in the same way of when you see a love story and start dreaming about your soul mate. When Matthew writes to his mother and says "you'll be happy to know I met the right people", well, I just envied him. The right people, so rare nowadays.
Take a horror movie: maybe it's a great film, but hardly ever you'll dream, you wish you were there - right inside the movie. Well, with "The dreamers" it could be the opposite: regardless from the quality of the movie, you watch it and just wish you were there - living with those beautiful people, in such a stimulating environment, culturally and politically.
In other words, you see "The Dreamers" and you start dreaming. Well, of course that does not make of it a great movie, necessarily - but it's a pretty good start, I'd say.
Yes, the movie is about love (lust, maybe, sex), but also about getting along well with people who are right for you. Not friends, not necessarily friends, but interesting folk, who maybe won't last forever, but who help you in doing what you like, thinking what you think, going where is good for you. And I'm not saying that the cultural environment and the people depicted in the film are the right ones for everybody, but what I say is that watching this film made me feel I'm missing the right company, the right people around me (I'd say, a sort of cultural loneliness), exactly in the same way of when you see a love story and start dreaming about your soul mate. When Matthew writes to his mother and says "you'll be happy to know I met the right people", well, I just envied him. The right people, so rare nowadays.