In the Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci’s twisted love triangle, the penniless American student Matthew (Michael Pitt), the wealthy, Mao-quoting dilettante Théo (Louis Garrel) and his eccentric film nerd sister, Isabelle (Eva Green), are united by cinephilia. The threesome are essentially trapped in a Parisian apartment in the spring of 1968, in a city on the cusp of class revolution. Yes, there’s lots of sex and full-frontal nudity, but this is really a film about the intoxicating…
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