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
00:04:06 if the present echoes inside them
00:08:43 And you, what would you do?
00:16:10 We were here talking.
00:18:41 if he saw all these people who've come to see him dead.
00:21:37 These condolences take so long.
00:25:48 Tonight I go back to Milan.
00:31:22 ...and sees Harlequin...
00:38:54 Forget it.
00:42:02 ...many people in Parma won't even leave the table
00:48:33 No more May...
00:51:58 we will find that the only person with more illusions than the dreamer
00:54:26 I know a story older than Proust.
00:56:49 And I believe them.
01:00:10 You had me under care, we had to continue!
01:06:59 In the cinema your mind was also somewhere else.
01:10:34 It's over.
01:14:58 To think that I'm here on holiday
01:18:04 He's from Parma, right?
01:20:37 Shut up, you can't talk.
01:26:09 I feel it's all wrong, even this way of having fun.
01:28:24 Workers want to improve their economic condition.
01:31:45 of all existing social order.
01:40:13 Well... you arrived.