Before the Revolution

Bernardo Bertolucci
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterful second feature is a deeply personal portrait of a generation gripped by political uncertainty set in the director’s hometown of Parma.

DIRECTOR
Bernardo Bertolucci
YEAR
1964
COUNTRY
Italy
RUNTIME
105 minutes

Dan Talbot began as an exhibitor, and he started his distribution company, New Yorker Films, for the best possible reason: he saw a film that he loved and he wanted to share it with as many people as possible. The film was Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterful second feature, a deeply personal portrait of a generation gripped by political uncertainty. Set in the director’s hometown of Parma, it follows the travails of a young student struggling to reconcile his militant views with his bourgeois lifestyle (and his fiancée), who drifts into a passionate affair with his radical aunt. One of the key films of the ’60s, Before the Revolution set many aspiring filmmakers on their own autobiographical courses.

35mm print courtesy of Istituto Luce Cinecitta

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