Before the Revolution (1964)
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.
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Writing:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Gianni Amico
Stars:
Release Date: 1964-05-13
7.1/10
7.1/10
- Country: IT
- Language: Italiano
- Runtime: 107
Agostino
Fabrizio
Gina
Cesare
Amico
Cesare (voice)
Puck (voice)
