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1:10, 3:55, 7:20, 10:10
CHRIST R
A New Film by
Bernardo
Bertolucci
1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00
WALKING TALL PG 13
12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25
DREAMERS
AGENT CODY BANKS 2
1:40, 4:20
HOME ON THE
RANGE PG
4:45, 7:05 & 9:20 Nightly
Sun Mat 2:25 pm
NC-17
STARSKY&
HUTCH PG13
12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15
Michael Caine Tilda Swinton
THE
STATEMENT
Directed by Norman Jewison
(THE HURRICANE, MOONSTRUCK)
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Neve Campbell Malcolm McDowell
THE
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12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25
HELLBOY PG13
12:45, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 7:10, 7:40,
10:05, 10:35
DAWN OF THE DEAD R
SCOOBY
DOO 2 PG
TAKING LIVES R
12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20
1:45, 4:25, 7:35, 10:20
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JERSEY
GIRL PG13
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF
THE SPOTLESS MIND
1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:00
THE LADYKILLERS R
12:50, 3:40, 7:25, 10:10
1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55
HIDALGO PG13
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12:00, 3:10, 6:55, 10:15
7:40, 10:15
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[12:00], 2:30, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45
COMMANDER PG13
[11:50], 3:00, 6:45, 10:00
BUTTERFLY EFFECT R
[11:40], 2:20, 4:55, 7:35,10:20
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*DISNEY’S HOME ON THE RANGE – PG (12:00
2:00) 4:00 6:00 8:00
HIDALGO – PG-13 (12:40) 3:30 6:20 9:10
PASSION OF THE CHRIST – R (12:30) 3:20 6:10
9:00
PETER PAN PG
Young love.
SOMETHING’S
GOTTA GIVE PG13
[11:20], 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30
HARVARD CINEMAS
[11:30], 2:40, 6:40, 9:45
[11:15], 1:50, 4:30
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MIRACLE PG
CALENDAR GIRLS PG13
THE
[12:10], 3:10, 7:15, 10:10
HOUSE OF SAND AND
FOG R
THE HAUNTED
MANSION PG
[12:25], 4:15, 7:10, 10:05
[11:35], 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:25
LAST SAMURAI R
[11:45], 3:05, 6:30, 9:55
WIN A DATE WITH TAD
HAMILTON PG13
LORD OF THE RINGS:
RETURN OF THE KING
PG13
[11:25], 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35
[ ] FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY ONLY
[11:15], 3:30, 4:45
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*HELLBOY – PG-13 (1:00) 3:50 6:35 9:20
*PRINCE AND ME – PG (1:10) 3:40 6:10 8:40
*WALKING TALL - PG-13 (12:50 2:50) 4:50 6:55
9:00
*LADYKILLERS – R (1:45) 4:15 6:45 9:10
*SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED –
PG (1:05) 3:30 6:00 8:15
DAWN OF THE DEAD – R (12:30) 4:59 9:30
TAKING LIVES – R 4:00 8:50
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS
MIND – R (3:00) 7:30
SECRET WINDOW – PG-13 (12:40) 5:20 9:40
STARSKY AND HUTCH – PG-13 (1:40) 6:25
50 FIRST DATES – PG-13 (2:45) 7:15
JERSEY GIRL (PG-13) DIG ✔
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THE PRINCE AND ME (PG) DIG ✔
(1145 215 445) 720 950
STARTS 4/9: “THE GIRL NEXT DOOR”, “THE
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(1205 225 440) 705 935
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LADYKILLERS (R) - ID REQ'D DIG ✔
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (R) - ID REQ'D
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PASSION OF THE CHRIST (R) - ID REQ'D DIG (1200 300) 645
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THE PRINCE AND ME (PG) DIG ✔
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(515) 750 1025
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(1240 345) 650 955
HIDALGO (PG-13) DIG
(1210 240)
STARSKY & HUTCH (PG-13) DIG
N e ve C a m pb e ll , M a l co lm M cD o we l l PG-13
T H E C OM PA N Y
PASSION OF THE CHRIST (R) - ID REQ'D DIG
(140 430) 720
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DREAMERS : Directed by Bernardo
Bertolucci. Written by Gilbert Adair, based on his novel,
The Holy Innocents. Produced by Jeremy Thomas.
Production design, Jean Rabasse. Cinematography,
Fabio Cianchetti. Editor, Jacopo Quandri. Costumes,
Louise Stjernsward. Starring Michael Pitt, Eva Green and
Louis Garrel. With Robin Renicco, Anna Chacellor, Florian
Cadiou. Twentieth Century Fox, 2004. NC-17. 115 minutes.
F
or everyone who enjoys Bernardo
Bertolucci and his particular preoc-
cupation with sensuality, transgres-
sive sexuality and the idealism of youthful
rebellion, here, at last, is The Dreamers. The
film is political, and certainly it’s about the
love of cinema, yet it is cued to the dreams of
the Paris revolution of 1968 that brought the
French government to its knees.
Three young people obsessed with the
idea that cinema could change the world —
American student Matthew (Michael Pitt)
and French brother Theo (Louis Garrel) and
sister Isabelle (Eva Green) — meet outside
the barricaded doors of the Cinemateque
Francoise. Isabelle has chained herself to a
door, and Matthew is instantly smitten. But
he soon discovers Theo will decide whether
he becomes their friend or not. And between
the siblings — twins? once conjoined twins?
— runs an erotic charge that attracts him.
These are “The Holy Innocents” from
Gilbert Adair’s novel he has adapted to the
screen. They are passionate and slightly
twisted. Desire is the subtext of the film, and
we are meant to identify with American naif,
Matthew. But I’m not sure Bertolucci, an old
Marxist and French cinephile himself, does-
n’t also prefer Matthew’s sensibilities. Decide
for yourself.
The Parisian siblings are worldly beyond
their years. They have grown up in an aging
apartment in the city, with a well-off poet
father, a former political firebrand and out-
spoken intellectual. Their attractive mother
reluctantly agrees to cook for them, although
she and their father are leaving for the coun-
try the morning after the twins bring Matthew
around to meet the family.
Theo and Isabelle smoke incessantly and
are openly rude and argumentative with their
parents, who appear to have simply given up
and let the children raise themselves. These
parents are a dash of cold water in the face of
the overheated, overscheduled, perfection-
driven parenting of our time. They have their
own lives, and so do their children.
But Matthew impresses the father, which
must be a rare event, and he is invited to stay
at the house while they’re gone. The three
young people embark on a set of games that
include cinematic riddles, sexual forfeit and
experimentation. Incest and homosexual
yearnings are present only in glances and
body language.
Riots and police retaliation rake the streets
of the city, and political furor ensues in the
halls of government. But inside the house,
only emotional risks are taken. The political
and the personal are juxtaposed to good effect
here, but there is no doubt that what’s going
on in the bathroom and bedrooms is where
the camera’s interest lies.
Later, when the riots intrude into the pri-
vate spaces of the house, Bertolucci shows
that he is more than adept at staging and
shooting the violence and drama of street
fighting. The music throughout the film is
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other musi-
cians of the era, but over the end credits,
Edith Piaf sings the anthem that always gives
me goosebumps, Je ne regrette rien.
Bertolucci’s recent films, such as
Besieged, demonstrate he still elicits
unguarded performances that ring true.
Lovemaking scenes are sublime, and the sim-
ple ease the three characters express with
their naked bodies sets the emotional tone for
the picture. The Dreamers is a beautiful
reminder that youthful dreams may not
change the ways of the world, but they may
forever alter the dreamers.
Sven Birkerts writes about reviewing
books in Bookforum (Spring ’04), but his
cogent observations apply to an attitude I’ve
observed in film reviewers for some time: a
hipper-than-thou, intellectual posture steeped
in irony that drips with the gratuitously mean-
spirited. “Snarky” perfectly describes the
jaded approach of critics who neither believe
film is capable of art nor see pictures as an
informed expression of the human experi-
ence. Ignore these poseurs, and trust yourself.
Open your senses and your heart to films
such as The Dreamers, because otherwise
we’ll be left with only blockbusters and trash.
Opens at the Bijou Friday, April 2, with very
highest recommendations.
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