The Dreamers
Together nothing is impossible. Together nothing is forbidden.
Country
Production
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$15 121 165
Director
Actors
Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Florian Cadiou, Pierre Hancisse, Valentin Merlet
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Fabio Cianchetti
Composer
Artist
Audition
Howard Feuer, Lucy Boulting, Juliette Ménager
Editing
Jacopo Quadri
Whole Team (36)
Whole Team (36)
Short description
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jake Gyllenhaal was initially considered for the role. He turned it down due to the abundance of explicit scenes.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's film received the most restrictive rating in the US – NC-17.
- The film 'The Dreamers' does not feature original music. All the music in the film is taken from other films.
- The majority of scenes depicting the sexual relationship between Matthew and Theo were not included in the film. The filmmakers considered them too provocative. This is a significant difference between Bertolucci's film and Ader's novel.
- The scene in which Isabelle's hair caught fire was unplanned. Eva Green was supposed to lean forward to kiss Matthew goodnight, but her hair accidentally ignited from a candle on the table. Eva didn't make a big deal of it and acted so naturally that Bertolucci decided to keep the scene, as he felt it fully demonstrated the madness of what was happening.
- The film is based on Gilbert Adair's novel "The Holy Innocents" (1988) and two other books by the author. He also wrote the screenplay for the film.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Matthew. He declined the offer due to filming "The Aviator".
- The scene in which the heroes run through the Louvre quotes a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's film "Band of Outsiders".
- Throughout the film, the characters consciously recreate scenes from their favorite films or repeat characteristic gestures of their favorite movie heroes. For example, the scene in which the heroes run through the Louvre is a repetition of the run through the Louvre in Godard's "Pierrot le Fou." The scene where Isabelle and Theo, after running in the Louvre, repeat the phrase “We accept him. He’s one of us” recreates a scene from Tod Browning’s “Freaks” (1932). Isabelle says that her first words in English were New York Herald Tribune – the first line of the American woman in Godard’s “Breathless.” The suicide attempt is accompanied by footage of Musette’s suicide from Bresson’s film of the same name. Other films quoted by the characters include Bresson’s “Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne,” Chaplin’s “City Lights,” Buñuel’s “The Golden Age,” Hawks’ “Scarface,” Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” “Blonde Venus” with Marlene Dietrich, “Queen Christina” with Greta Garbo, and “Top Hat” with Fred Astaire. In the cinema, the film’s characters are watching Samuel Fuller’s cult film “Shock Corridor.” Posters for films by Ingmar Bergman (“Persona”), Godard (“Chine”), and Antonioni (“Blow-Up”) hang in the apartment. All the music in the film is taken from other films.
- The film is based on the novel 'The Holy Innocents' (1988) by Gilbert Adair and two other books by the author. He wrote the screenplay for the film himself.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Matthew. He turned down the offer due to filming for the movie 'The Aviator'.
- Jake Gyllenhaal was originally intended for the role. He declined it because of the abundance of explicit scenes.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's film received the strictest theatrical rating in the US — NC-17.
- Most of the scenes involving the sexual relationship between Matthew and Theo did not make it into the film. The creators considered them too provocative. This is a significant difference between Bertolucci's film and André Hadar's novel.
- The scene in which the characters run through the Louvre references a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's film 'Band of Outsiders'.
- The scene in which Isabelle's hair caught fire was unplanned. Eva Green was supposed to lean forward to give Matthew a goodnight kiss, but her hair accidentally caught fire from a candle standing on the table. Eva didn't make much of it and played the moment so naturally that Bertolucci decided to keep the scene, believing it fully demonstrated the inherent madness of everything happening.
- Throughout the film, the characters consciously recreate scenes from their favorite movies or repeat the characteristic gestures of their favorite cinema icons. For example, the scene in which the characters run through the Louvre is a repetition of the run through the Louvre in Godard's 'Stranger'. The scene where Isabelle and Theo, after running through the Louvre, repeat the phrase 'We accept him. He is one of us' reproduces a scene from Todd Browning's 'Freaks' (1932). Isabelle mentions that her first words in English were 'New York Herald Tribune'—the first phrase spoken by an American woman in Godard's 'Breathless'. The suicide attempt is accompanied by footage of Musette's suicide from Bresson's film of the same name. Other films quoted by the characters include Bresson's 'Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne', Charlie Chaplin's 'City Lights', Buñuel's 'The Golden Age', Howard Hawks' 'Scarface', Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Blonde Venus' starring Marlene Dietrich, 'Queen Christina' starring Greta Garbo, and 'The Top Hat' starring Fred Astaire. At the cinema, the characters watch Samuel Fuller's cult film 'Shock Corridor'. Posters for films by Ingmar Bergman ('Persona'), Godard ('A Woman Is Married'), and Antonioni ('Blow-Up') hang in the apartment. All the music featured in the film is taken from other motion pictures.
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