In May 1968, the student riots in Paris only exacerbate the isolation felt by three youths: an American exchange student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) and twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green). Their passion for movies, and each other is beyond bounds.
12 December 1978, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
29 December 1944, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
28 May 1944, Paris, France
14 June 1983, Paris, France
27 April 1965, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
6 February 1932, Paris, France
27 December 1901, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
10 April 1981, West Orange, New Jersey, USA
November 13, 1938 in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
April 9, 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France
11 July 1956, Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire, France
12 April 1908, Carthage, Illinois, USA
16 July 1911, Independence, Missouri, USA
10 May 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
July 10, 1897 in Logan, Utah, USA
6 July 1980, Paris, France
30 October 1938, Paris, France
18 September 1905, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
August 21, 2009
Despite the movie's well-earned NC-17, Bertolucci's own ménage à trois favors cinephilia over the related pleasures of politics and sex.
March 05, 2004
Swept away by the intensity of the characters' movie debates and sexual games, Bertolucci often recaptures the film-besotted spirit of the period.
March 04, 2004
Ambitious and uneven, visceral and pungent.
January 26, 2006
A real pleasure.
February 20, 2004
Its nostalgia and narcissism are ultimately two versions of the same thing, and neither can reopen cross-cultural channels. Instead they keep this story stuck in the past, frozen and intact and irrelevant.
June 03, 2006
The film is at once a celebration of the sexual revolution and a celebration of cinema as the secular equivalent of religion, at a time when movies really mattered.
April 01, 2006
Fans of film and gorgeous naked people of either sex will find much here to interest them. But it also has moments that make you want to throw stones.
December 07, 2007
It's an amusing, sophisticated movie, true to its times, cheerfully erotic, and played with unselfconscious conviction by its three young actors.
April 29, 2009
Bertolucci tops himself.
August 07, 2004
Exhilarating.
August 27, 2009
Legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci ("1900") crafts a return to social revolt in the form of sexual pursuits by a trio of late '60s teenaged students in this engaging yet insufficient movie.

