Before the Revolution (1964) ( Prima della rivoluzione )

Before the Revolution (1964) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Prima della rivoluzione
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Bernardo Bertolucci

Written By:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Gianni Amico

Actors:
Evelina Alpi ..... The little girl
Gianni Amico ..... A friend
Adriana Asti ..... Gina
Cecrope Barilli ..... Puck
Francesco Barilli ..... Fabrizio
Amelia Bordi ..... The mother
Salvatore Enrico ..... The priest
Guido Fanti ..... Enore
Iole Lunardi ..... The grandmother
Antonio Maghenzani ..... The brother
Allen Midgette ..... Agostino
Morando Morandini ..... Cesare
Goliardo Padova ..... The painter
Cristina Pariset ..... Clelia
Ida Pellegri ..... Clelia's mother

Synopsis:

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

Future director Francesco Barilli stars in this film about a young radical torn between his rebellious political views and the easy middle-class lifestyle to which he has become accustomed. Barilli rebels in another way as well, engaging in a love affair with his pretty aunt (Adriana Asti), but soon becomes conflicted in that area as well, choosing in the end to conform to traditional expectations. This early Bernardo Bertolucci film makes a bit too much of its protagonist's philosophical underpinnings, but is filled with amusing allusions to various films and literary works in its attempt to explore themes of man's surrender to societal pressures. Bertolucci later explored the same themes on a much larger canvas in his controversial classic 1900.

A rarely seen early work from one of world cinema s most acclaimed directors, Bernardo Bertolucci s beautiful and unique Before the Revolution - made when he was just 22 captures the passions and ideology of the 1960s. Young, idealistic and bourgeois, Fabrizio struggles to come to terms with these contradictions and master a transgressive love for his aunt. Part autobiography, part literary adaptation, part homage to the French new-wave and Italian neo-realists that inspired him, Bertolucci s virtuosic second film is an atmospheric, ambiguous portrait of idealistic youth.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 21 October, 2011.

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