Me and You

Film Review by Lewis Porteous | 18 Jul 2013
Film title: Me and You
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco
Release date: 8 Jul
Certificate: 15

Taken as a whole, Bernardo Bertolucci’s filmography is testament to his more than passing interest in incest. As a precocious 24-year-old, he made Before the Revolution, in which a young man embarks on an affair with his aunt. By his 40th birthday, Bertolucci had moved on to the hard stuff and brought Oedipal romance to our screens with La Luna, while 2003’s The Dreamers exploited the sexual openness between its sibling characters to discomforting effect. Given the director’s past form, what’s so surprising about Me and You is how unashamedly sweet it is.

Sure, its teenage protagonist hits on his mother over dinner and grows fiercely protective of the half sister with whom he spends a week holed up in a basement while ducking out of a school skiing trip. Rather than unsettle the viewer, however, these details make for a refreshingly off-beat coming-of-age tale that Wes Anderson would be proud of. [Lewis Porteous]

Me and You was released 8 Jul by Artificial Eye

Special Features

• Electric Chair: Behind the Scenes of Me and You

• Theatrical trailer

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