The Dreamers is a 2003 French/British/Italian drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

. The screenplay is by Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec...

, based on his own novel The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents (novel)

The Holy Innocents is a novel by Gilbert Adair. A French/British/Italian film adaptation of the novel, The Dreamers, was made in 2003. The book has only been printed in hardcover and paperback only once. Thus, remaining copies of the novel fetch hefty prices on auction websites such as eBay....

. The film was an international co-production

International co-production

An international co-production is a production where two or more different production companies are working together, for example in a film production...

 by companies from France, Italy, and Great Britain.

The Dreamers tells the story of an American university student in Paris who, after meeting a peculiar brother and sister who are fellow film enthusiasts, becomes entangled in an erotic conflict.