Before The Revolution

Bernardo Bertolucci's second film is a dense semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a 20-year-old named Fabrizio (Francesco Barilli) who's struggling between Marxist ideology and a more comfortable bourgeois life. Fabrizio rejects his middle-class background and his shallow fiancee Clelia to pursue a Marxist lifestyle under the guidance of his communist schoolteacher friend Cesare, and also has a brief affair with his attractive young aunt, but eventually becomes politically disillusioned and leaves the communist party, then settles for a "normal" life with Clelia.

Made when Bertolucci was 22, (who, like Fabrizio, is also from Parma) the film already sho...