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Film Before the Revolution (1964)

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Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directed Before the Revolution when he was just 22 years old, and it brims with the passion you might expect from that tender age. The film's conflict between sexual desire and stifling politics is a familiar theme, running through Bertolucci's oeuvre up to 2003's The Dreamers. Less overtly radical than his predecessor Pier Paolo Pasolini (a 20-year-old Bertolucci assisted on the older director's 1961 film, Accattone), Bertolucci emerged as a sensuous moralist with this film. He also found a future wife in Adriana Asti, the film's ravishing lead actress.

 

– Max Goldberg

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