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The most interesting character in the new Bernardo Bertolucci movie, "The Dreamers," is a Paris flat--a worn but beautiful bohemian version of an appartement grand bourgeois, with olive walls, high-ceilinged corridors, many pictures and books, and, here and there, a secret corner. An American college student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) wanders into this preserve of Old Europe and almost never makes it out again. The year is 1968 and Matthew, who is blond and has blue eyes and a thickly sensual upper lip--a good-looking, unawakened boy--is in Paris soaking up as many movies as he can. Suddenly, an event from French history intrudes: the government fires Henri Langlois, the ...