A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Paris, spring 1968. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and daughter Isabelle enjoy the good life in his grand Paris home. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. With their parents away for a month, they drag him into an orgy of indulgence of all senses, losing all of his and the last of their innocence. A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up.
Written by KGF Vissers
There were scenes in the script depicting much more blatant sexual relations between the characters of Matthew and Theo, but they were not filmed. Director Bertolucci said, "The gay sex was in the first script, but I had a feeling that it was just too much stuff. It became redundant." Actor Pitt said in interview, "It was in the script and it's what I'd signed to do. But they said we weren't going to do that."
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Isabelle takes Matthew to see her Father, she ruffles his hair and it messes. In the next shot it's perfectly neat.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Matthew:
The first time I saw a movie at the cinématèque française I thought, "Only the French... only the French would house a cinema inside a palace." See more »
Crazy Credits
The word "events" is misspelled in the sentence stating "The wevents,
characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious."
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