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Before The Revolution

1964, Movie, NR, 112 mins

Before The Revolution: Review

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 pol... read more leave a comment