Before the Revolution
1964 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 3,223 VOTES · DIR. Bernardo Bertolucci
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,086 lines
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00:00:13 Many things had to happen
00:04:08 as it does in me and cannot be consumed.
00:08:49 The revolution?
00:16:17 "At first yes, then you get used to it."
00:18:54 I'm not coming.
00:21:54 Tall, blond...
00:26:07 But you won't!
00:33:48 This never happened before.
00:39:22 I didn't want them to hear us.
00:45:43 It's a "camera obscura", a trick with mirrors.
00:49:45 Franklin stoves are all like that.
00:52:37 which need to be tended to every day.
00:55:11 He married her, had many children and lived with her for 20 years.
00:57:43 It was an accident, you have no right to talk like that.
01:01:09 Can you hear it?
01:07:46 I didn't know what being involved meant.
01:11:55 A nice man, he said some beautiful things to me.
01:16:22 Look into my eyes.
01:19:12 because I had land and land never betrays you.
01:22:34 No more coots!
01:27:15 ...in 20 years the People have not forged a common conscience.
01:30:01 Instead I filled her with anguish.
01:36:13 I'm so happy.
26:19:06 MACBETH