Word: bertolucci
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...closing of the French cinematheque, the classic movie theater where these three cinephiles have spent many an afternoon. Soon, Matthew is invited to stay at Isabelle and Theo’s house while their parents are away. Movie-inspired sexual games ensue. One of the more interesting devices Bertolucci uses is intercutting scenes of the three main characters with the movies that inspired the scene, references obviously geared to movie dorks. But what about the more obvious pleasure of copious nudity? Bertolucci sadly pares it down to its base elements, with the net effect of turning off the audience. Theo...
...closing of the French cinematheque, the classic movie theater where these three cinephiles have spent many an afternoon. Soon, Matthew is invited to stay at Isabelle and Theo’s house while their parents are away. Movie-inspired sexual games ensue. One of the more interesting devices Bertolucci uses is intercutting scenes of the three main characters with the movies that inspired the scene, references obviously geared to movie dorks. But what about the more obvious pleasure of copious nudity? Bertolucci sadly pares it down to its base elements, with the net effect of turning off the audience. Theo...
...more interesting devices Bertolucci uses is intercutting many scenes of the three of them with the movies that inspired the scene, such as the three of them racing through the Louvre attempting to beat the time set in Bande à Part (Band Of Outsiders), or mimicking the classic streetwalk of Jean Seabourg in Breathless. These are obviously devices more geared to movie dorks like myself; if seeing a clip from Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller’s 1963 opus, brings a smile of recognition to your lips, there are at least some pleasures in this flick...
...what about the more obvious pleasure, the copious nudity? This is the director of Last Tango, one of the most erotic pictures of the last 40 years. Sadly, this constitutes a different kind of nudity. Rather than being a result of strong sexuality and eroticism, Bertolucci pares the nudity down to its base elements. While all three are bathing naked in the bath, Isabelle has her period. Although her menstrual blood is presumably meant to symbolize the danger in their relationship at that point, the net effect is turning off the audience. It only adds to the uneasiness we already...
...second half revolves around their games, but it becomes unclear what their points are. Also completely unclear is the significance of the student riots at the conclusion, real historical events. There seems to be mockery of Isabelle and Theo for joining in, but that would mean Bertolucci disliked the characters he worked so hard to give us, without any real explanation...