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7	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thedreamers_6245.jpg]]
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9	''The Dreamers'' is a 2003 EroticFilm by Creator/BernardoBertolucci based on the novel ''The Holy Innocents'' by Gilbert Adair.
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11	The film is set against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots in France. Matthew (Creator/MichaelPitt), an American exchange student, befriends Isabelle (Creator/EvaGreen) and Théo (Creator/LouisGarrel), an [[{{Twincest}} unusually close]] twin brother and sister, and becomes involved with the sister.
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14	!!This film provides examples of:
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16	* TheSixties: The movie is basically a collection of everything that was cool about the sixties. It is an idealized vision full of the usual images: free love, weed all around, Music/JanisJoplin records, and debates about Maoism, UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, and the greatness of Music/EricClapton vs. Music/JimiHendrix.
17	* AdaptationTitleChange: The film is based on the novel ''The Holy Innocents''.
18	* BirthmarkOfDestiny: Theo and Isabelle use this to support their claim that they are identical twins.
19	* BloodstainedDefloration: After having sex with Isabelle, Matthew is surprised to find out she was an UnexpectedVirgin, as shown by the blood on his hand.
20	* {{Bowdlerization}}: The film received an R-rated cut that removed 3 minutes of sexual content from the runtime.
21	* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Isabelle catches Theo masturbating to old pictures of actress Creator/MarleneDietrich, and then has him do it in front of her and Matthew.
22	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Theo and Isabelle.
23	%%* EthicalSlut: Theo.
24	* EuropeansAreKinky: Basically the reason for this movie--lots of sex, including (implicitly) between the twins.
25	* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: It's a movie by Creator/BernardoBertolucci about TheSixties.
26	* {{Fanservice}}: Lots of it, especially from Isabelle who is played by Eva Green in her film debut.
27	* FemmeFatale: The film evokes this trope with Isabelle who is comfortable [[IncestSubtext being naked around her brother and watching him masturbate]]. There's something very erotically dangerous about her - so it's no surprise that when the movie turns out to be happening during the 1968 Paris riots that Isabelle and her brother immediately get involved.
28	* {{Fetish}}: In a scene when Isabelle is wearing nothing but a sheet around her waist and black opera gloves against a black background (making it look like she has no arms from just above the elbows), Matthew says "I've always wanted to make love to the Art/VenusDeMilo."
29	* {{Foreshadowing}}: If anyone finds out, she'll kill herself.
30	* GilliganCut: Isabelle vehemently refusing to let Matthew into her room. Cut to the next scene with Matthew exploring her room.
31	* HalfIdenticalTwins: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Matthew, who points out that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology since Theo and Isabelle are different genders their claim of being identical twins must be false.]]
32	* HideYourLesbians: In the book, it's based on, ''The Holy Innocents'' by Gilbert Adair, the sexuality between Matthew and Theo was just as developed as that between Matthew and Isabelle. In the movie, the two boys just indulge in a little HoYay, while Matthew and Isabelle actually have lots of sex onscreen.
33	* IdealizedSex: {{Averted\|Trope}}. Hence the NC-17 rating for the uncut version.
34	* MaleFrontalNudity: Both guys. Theo even masturbates for the camera.
35	* MsFanservice: That's Eva Green, not wearing a lot of clothing.
36	* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer has a quote by Isabelle which is never said in the actual film: "There's something we've always wanted to do but we've been waiting for the right person to do it with..."
37	* NoEnding: Just as Theo takes Isabelle's hand and hurls a molotov cocktail at police, the film abruptly ends with no closure to the three main leads' fates.
38	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Isabelle gets hers [[{{Squick}} while taking a bath with Theo and Matthew]]. Theo notes it's "good news", since she'd already had unprotected sex with Matthew multiple times.
39	* OnlyOneName: The main protagonists are solely called "Matthew", "Isabelle" and "Théo". Everyone else is either [[NoNameGiven nameless]] or OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.
40	* PornWithPlot: The entire movie. The plot is about three friends exploring their sexuality and having plenty of sex with each other. All of this is set in the backdrop of the 1968 Paris riots and the characters occasionally discuss it.
41	* ShoutOut: To lots of old movies starring the likes of Creator/GretaGarbo. The characters often reenact scenes from classic movies (the director then usually cuts to a clip of the original). Example: Matthew, Theo, and Isabelle run through the Louvre in order to break the record set in the movie ''Film/BandeAPart''. Also, the twins play a game in which they later involve Matthew: you reenact a movie scene and the other person has to recognize that scene or else fulfill a usually squicky dare.
42	* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler:Matthew having sex with Isabelle turns out to be hers, which surprises him greatly as she'd acted far more experienced.]]
43	* AThreesomeIsHot: It frequently happens with the three main leads of the film.
44	* {{Twincest}}: Heavily implied, though never explicitly confirmed, between Isabelle and Theo. At the very least Isabelle was [[spoiler: a virgin until Matthew]].
45	* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Subverted by the fact that one twin is male and the other is female.
46	* UnexpectedVirgin: [[spoiler:Isabelle turns out to be one before having sex with Matthew, surprising him.]]
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