Sunday August 5th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema, Before The Revolution (1964),
Prima Della Rivoluzione, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, 115 minutes, In Italian with English subtitles, high-definition screening.
Screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock, starts at 8pm.
This rarely seen vital and elegant second feature film by Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Sheltering Sky) is considered by most to be his first masterpiece. Its best to forget Bertolucci’s later detour into Hollywood and getting lost in huge financial productions…his earliest films are more tight, more poetic and more honest. Before the Revolution was made when he was only 23. It shows that he was already a visionary filmmaker and its closer to the first films of the French New Wave than it is to the bloated star-studded spectacles he was involved in years later. Having said that, I also have to say that it remains one of his most stylish films. […Lees verder]
