What happens when youth, politics, desire, and cinema collide in one room? And what does it mean when a film feels less like a story and more like a fever dream about freedom itself? In this Watch & Talk session hosted by Anji, a Cannes-nominated director and filmmaker, we’ll explore The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci, one of Anji’s favourite films. Set during the turbulent summer of Paris, 1968, the movie follows three young people who retreat into an apartment while revolution unfolds in the streets outside. Is their isolation a form of escape, or a different kind of rebellion? Through scenes from the film, we’ll look at how cinema becomes a language for youth, intimacy, and the seductive fantasy of living inside art.
Together we’ll discuss the film’s provocative ideas: cinema as a language of desire, the body as a form of protest, and the strange tension between revolution as an aesthetic dream and revolution as a messy reality. The Dreamers asks unsettling questions about the boundary between looking and participating, between innocence and experience, between life and the beautiful illusions we create to survive it. This Watch & Talk evening invites you to step inside that apartment with us, to close the door for a moment and ask: can cinema replace reality, or does reality always find its way back in?
当青春、政治、欲望和电影同时出现在一个空间里，会发生什么？如果一部电影看起来不像是在讲一个故事，而更像是一场关于“自由”的发烧般的梦境，那又意味着什么？在这场由 Anji 主持的 Watch & Talk 活动中，我们会一起聊 Bernardo Bertolucci 的电影《戏梦巴黎》（The Dreamers），这也是 Anji 很喜欢的一部作品。电影的背景设定在 1968 年那个动荡的巴黎夏天，故事讲的是三个年轻人躲进一间公寓里，而外面的街道上正爆发着学生运动和社会抗议。他们选择把自己关在房间里，这是一种逃避现实，还是一种不一样的反抗？通过电影里的片段，我们会一起看看电影是如何变成一种表达青春、亲密关系，以及“活在艺术里”的那种迷人幻想的语言。
我们也会一起聊聊这部电影里那些挺大胆的想法：电影是不是一种表达欲望的语言？身体是不是也可以成为一种抗议的方式？还有一个很微妙的张力：当“革命”在电影里看起来像一种很美的幻想时，而现实中的革命其实又混乱又复杂。《戏梦巴黎》会不断抛出一些让人有点不安的问题，比如“观看”和“参与”的界线在哪里，“天真”和“经验”之间又是怎么变化的，以及我们在生活中创造的那些美丽幻想，和真实世界之间到底是什么关系。这个 Watch & Talk 的夜晚就像邀请大家一起走进那间公寓，暂时把门关上，问一个问题：电影可以代替现实吗，还是现实最终总会回来？
