Before the Revolution / Prima della rivoluzione Italy | b&w | 1964 | 115 mins | dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, with Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli
Made when Bertolucci was only 22 years old, this is the first of the director's many films to deal with the conflict between freedom and conformity. It stars Francesco Barilli as Fabrizio, a young radical forced to decide between radical political commitment and the comfortable middle-class environment in which he grew up, and between his bourgeois girlfriend Cecila and his passionate but unstable aunt Gina. Part autobiographical, and part reworking of Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, Before the Revolution expressly delineates the connection between politics and sexuality. Fri 2 May | 6.15pm | cert.12 | DB1
