Hmm not sure what exactly happened to my review of this film, which I know I did, but it disappeared, so I will write a new one here. Of course I know of the films of Bertolucci, especially last Tango in Paris, but for some reason didn’t have any desire to see this film, but my girlfriend was instantly into the racy content so we watched it. I myself wasn’t too impressed. Sure it has sex and themes of incest going on here, and there is some political activism and unrest going on in the background, but really this film is just an excuse to show some racy scenes and make some controversy. I really was not impressed at all.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

Michael Pitt plays American Student Matthew who is in France in 1968 to escape Vietnam in the US, and every night goes to watch movies at a special theater, but the theater is shut down, and he meets a brother and sister, Theo (Louis Garrell) and Isabelle (Eva Green), and it isn’t long before they have had him move into their flat while their parent’s are out of town. He sees the twins sleeping naked in the same bed, and eventually has sex with Isabelle, who it turns out is a virgin, and he shares baths with them, and lives with them, destroying the apartment, and having as much sex as they can. The parent’s return and find out what has happened, and only Isabelle knows, and she decides to kill them all, but fails when teh Paris Student Riots erupt outside and break the window, leaking the gas she has let loose in the apartment, and Theo loses them fighting the police.

Not much except sex here, and Michael Pitt seems way too effeminate to be this sexy male lead. I really was unimpressed by this one.