Me and You was based on a young-adult novel by Niccolò Ammaniti,
published in 2010, but it could have been made at any time in the last
40 years, especially when Lorenzo and Olivia start singing along to
David Bowie's rewritten Italian version of Space Oddity. Something in
its slightly earnest imagining of abuse, drugs and young people marks
this out as an old man's film. For all that, it has warmth and a kind of
neo-New-Wave jauntiness – Bertolucci even fires off a visual allusion
to Truffaut in the final moments – and it's similar in many ways to his
earlier films The Dreamers and Last Tango in Paris, but less highly
charged, and with less at stake. A minor, but valuable Bertolucci film.
ME AND YOU (2012) Excerpt from
Richard Lormand on
Vimeo.
