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Before the Revolution
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Before the Revolution
| Duration | 112 |
| Year | 1964 |
| Categories | Romance, Drama |
| Cast | Francesco Barilli, Adriana Asti, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini |
| Written By | Bernardo Bertolucci (story), Gianni Amico (screenplay) |
| Directed By | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced By | Ripley's Film |
| Distributed By | BFI |
| Film Details |
Bertolucci's brilliantly assured second film is very loosely inspired by Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, a novel the director adored.
The story centres on the emotional and political conflicts within a young man, Fabrizio, who is contemplating joining the Communist Party. But his personal life is even more unresolved, as he breaks away from his planned marriage to a perfect bourgeoise and becomes incestuously involved with his alluring aunt (Adriana Asti). Bertolucci's obsession for politics and cinema is openly expressed through this alter-ego and in the extraordinary freedom of his camerawork and editing. There are heartfelt allusions to the history of filmmaking - a cinephile friend cries out 'One cannot live without Rossellini', while an erotic love scene echoes Jean Vigo's L'Atalante - as well as to the city of his youth, with a climactic sequence at the opera that is breathtaking in its sweep and intensity.