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A young man from a middle class family becomes confused about his origins when he discovers Marxism. Italian dialogue with English subtitles.
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A superb debut for Bertolucci (2007-12-01)  Before the Revolution is a ravishingly cinematic piece of work, with Bertolucci showing a real confidence with both camera and location that both serves and enhances the script. It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's an outstanding piece of cinema first and foremost - the politics is more a reflection of a universal weakness of character than a specific moment in time a la Godard (the film was adapted and updated from Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma). Even the movie references don't gall the way they almost always do in modern films because Bertolucci not only puts them into context with the other arts (literature, music, painting, photography) but makes them personal obsessions that are part of character - the movie buff isn't just there to talk about Bertolucci's favorite films, or even to point out that in cinema style is content: it's simply how that character communicates by equating life to art. A surprisingly exciting piece of cinema.
Great directing, monotonous story-line. (2003-12-31)  Cutural shifts haven't been kind to 'Before The Revolution'. Its hyperactive camera work, its moody characters pronouncing pretentious aphorisms about life and it's lack of even rudimentary physical action all conspire to make it look like a parody of what a 1960's European movie should look like. The story, even though it was adapted from Stendhal fails to arouse even a tinge of interest - the person I was watching it with fell asleep after 20 minutes -to the point where I stopped reading the subtitles half-way through and just concentrated on Bertolucci's direction instead. For although Bertolucci can be quite hit and miss when he comes to choosing stories, his inventive cinematic style always shines through and its that which kept me engaged for this movie's full 2 hours. Bertolucci began life trying to follow his father's footsteps as a poet. But when he realized he couldn't step outside his father's shadow, he turned to film instead, keeping his poetic instinct intact. He has guided his career by the nouvelle-vague question 'What is cinema?'. 'Before The Revolution is technically astounding giving no quarter to traditional forms of film-making. In an interview about this film Bertolucci has stated that he remembers much more about the lighting of the film than the storyline. All too often that has been the case with his career, where wonderful cinematic skill has been tarnished by lame plots & below-par scripts.
Prima della Rivoluzione (2002-12-04)  This was the debut film of Bernardo Bertolucci and one that can bee seen to be very of its time. The influence of Bertolucci's mentor Pier Paolo Pasolini is in evidence- there is much Gramscian inflected philosophy here (which dates the film a little, but also places it in the same continuum as films like Mamma Roma). This upset the catholic authorities at the time, as did Pasolini's La Ricotta- the influence on Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) is also in evidence in terms of both theme and style. Very much a debut film, you can detect the talent behind later classics such as The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist (contender for the greatest film ever made) & Last Tango in Paris. Before the Revolution still stands up to viewing, though lacks the surreal bit of Bertolucci's greatest mentor, Jean-Luc Godard- whose Weekend is far more fun in terms of fusing left-wing philosophies with cinematic style...
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