Before The Revolution

– The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate,..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 55 Minutes
Release Year:
1964
Original Name:
Prima della rivoluzione
Before the Revolution (1964) - Also known as Prima della rivoluzione

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.

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Before the Revolution (1964) - Trailer

Release Date:

10 Sep 1965

Language:

Italian

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer:

Bernardo Bertolucci (story and screenplay), Gianni Amico (screenplay collaborator)

Main Actors:

Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini

Plot:

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.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Production:

New Yorker Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%