Before the Revolution (1964)
A passionate youth and his eccentric aunt navigate love and loss. Ideal for fans of complex relationships and Italian drama.
Genres: Romance, Drama
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Before the Revolution(1964)
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The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
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Continuing my streak of just not connecting with Italian movies of the 60s, I found this to be bland and dull. Maybe I'm burnt out on politics in my own time, but I struggle to connect with the politics of the era and don't find Fabrizio's quest here to be an interesting glimpse.
The original title of the film is Prima della rivoluzione.
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