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Before the Revolution: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini. Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
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- Drama, Romance
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1965-09-10
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Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists. At the age of twenty, Fabrizio has fallen under the spell of Marxist ideology and makes fervent plans to wipe out the comfortable stagnation of the middle classes as represented both by his own background and that of his fiancée Clelia. He has two allies: Cesare, a schoolteacher, a...
Unavoidably, of course, one links the names of Bertolucci and Pasolini, the latter, on the basis of sheer output and experience, being the greater so far. What was astounding about the disciple’s first film, however, continues to be enthralling in Before the Revolution– the fact that he can both overstate and understate and get away with either nea...
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Balancing between his Marxist ideology and his forced integration into the system, the twenty-year-old student, Fabrizio, is both repelled and attracted by his parents' bourgeois way of life.
Release info. Before the Revolution. Jump to Edit. Release Date. France. May 9, 1964 (Cannes Film Festival) United States. September 24, 1964 (New York Film Festival) Italy. October 2, 1964 (Milan) Italy. November 6, 1964 (Rome) Italy. November 27, 1964 (Turin) 17 more. Also Known As (AKA) (original title) Prima della rivoluzione. Argentina.
Apr 10, 2011 · reviews, news & interviews. Before the Revolution. Bertolucci's 1964 study of idealism and incest is revived alongside a BFI season. by Graham Fuller Sunday, 10 April 2011. Travails with his aunt: Adriana Asti and Francesco Barilli in Before the Revolution (1964). British Film Institute.
Very much a young man's film, Before the Revolution, or Prima della rivoluzione as it was called in its original Italian, was director Bernardo Bertolucci's love letter to the French New Wave which was a revolution in itself, if only in cinematic terms.
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Before the Revolution (Italian: Prima della rivoluzione) is a 1964 Italian romantic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Adriana Asti and Francesco Barilli and is centred on "political and romantic uncertainty among the youth of Parma".
