{"id":95081,"date":"2024-01-21T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95081"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T04:28:20","slug":"before-the-revolution-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95081","title":{"rendered":"Before the Revolution (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s terrible to think how near to death the living are.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster-89x128.png 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster-188x270.png 188w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Poster.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn post-WWII Parma, a bourgeois young man (Francesco Barilli) engaged to an apolitical beauty (Cristina Pariset) reflects on life, religion, politics, and the recent death of his friend (Allen Midgette) while beginning an affair with his young aunt (Adriana Asti).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bernardo Bertolucci Films<\/li>\n<li>Italian Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nBernardo Bertolucci was only 22-years-old when he made his second feature-length film, with overt references to filmmakers he admired &#8212; including Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Unfortunately, Bertolucci&#8217;s Oscar-nominated screenplay &#8212; co-authored by Gianni Amico, and inspired by characters&#8217; names from Stendhal&#8217;s 1839 novel <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Charterhouse_of_Parma\"><em>The Charterhouse of Parma<\/em><\/a> &#8212; doesn&#8217;t provide us with much to hold onto, with Barilli simply presenting as a callow youth whose crush on his aunt seems ill-advised at best: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-1536x834.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still-497x270.png 497w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Still.png 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and Asti coming across as merely a wide-eyed, tortured cipher. While this film is lauded in <em>1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em> as an &#8220;astonishing&#8221; &#8220;elegy for those bourgeois lives doomed because they take place before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1968_movement_in_Italy#:~:text=The%201968%20movement%20in%20Italy,%2C%20except%20Bocconi%2C%20were%20occupied.\">the revolution<\/a>,&#8221; showcasing &#8220;a perfect portrait of the generation who were to embrace revolt in the late 1960s,&#8221; most modern (non-Italian) viewers won&#8217;t have a good sense of which revolution is being referred to, or why any of this much matters. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aldo Scavarda&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors-494x270.png 494w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Before-the-Revolution-Outdoors.png 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one unless you&#8217;re a Bertolucci fan. Listed as a Personal Recommendation in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056371\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=PABOAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=54sDAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=1485%2C2407816\">Village Voice Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s terrible to think how near to death the living are.&#8221; Synopsis: In post-WWII Parma, a bourgeois young man (Francesco Barilli) engaged to an apolitical beauty (Cristina Pariset) reflects on life, religion, politics, and the recent death of his friend (Allen Midgette) while beginning an affair with his young aunt (Adriana Asti). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci Films Italian Films Review: Bernardo Bertolucci was only 22-years-old when he made his second feature-length film, with overt references to filmmakers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95081\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95081"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95110,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081\/revisions\/95110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}