BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

Parma, 1962. Balancing between his Marxist ideology and his forced integration into the system, the twenty-year-old student, Fabrizio, is both repelled and attracted by his parents’ bourgeois way of life.

Made when he was just 22 years old, Bernardo Bertolucci’s passionate second feature intuitively sensed the rumbles of revolution in ‘60s Italy. A heady love affair, the potent lure of cinephilia, a conflicted soul mired in political doubt: many of the director’s key themes would bubble to the fore.