The Dreamers is Bertolucci's latest film, the screenplay adapted by Gilbert Adair from his own 1988 novel, The Holy Innocents.

Set in Paris in 1968, The Dreamers has a young American student (Michael Pitt, with Eva Green and Louis Garrel also co-starring) sharing his love of film, and more, with a pair of incestuous twins. Bertolucci plays in clips from New Wave Films like Band of Outsiders, films that had shaken the cinema-going-world and it really is thrill rather than homage underneath things here. Thrill at what cinema can do, how far it can leap.

All the time you're aware that the Dreamers has been made by people who know their films, their music, their paintings, their politics.There are those who have called The Dreamers pretentious. However the force of this critique is altogether febrile, The Dreamers is simply a reworking of Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles (filmed by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950) there is nothing wrong with an hommage - but it can never be considered a chef-d'oeuvre nevertheless Vive Bertolucci.