Before the Revolution

Year: 1964

Runtime: 107 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

RomanceDramaMoving relationship storiesPowerful poetic and passionate dramaPassion and romance

Set in Italy, where love is an art, Fabrizio is idealist influenced by Cesare and haunted by his friend Agostino’s drowning. His aunt Gina, older, begins an affair after the funeral and later sleeps with a stranger. Encounters with Cesare and landowner Puck, losing his estate, show visions of Italy’s future and suggest bleak prospects for them.

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