Altogether a dazzling film, both continually vital and something of a time capsule.
Read full articleBoth the vices and virtues of youthful confidence are apparent in its muddied complexity and fluid brilliance.
A cerebral and involving film whose vigour is undimmed after 47 years.
Read full articleWhat makes the film worth reviving is its stylistic elan, some channeled through Godard, Fellini and Antonioni, but all fresh and vigorous...
Read full articleIn all of Bertolucci's movies, there's a central conflict between the 'radical' impulses and a pessimistic (and/or willing) capitulation to the mainstream of bourgeois society and culture.
Read full articleBefore the Revolution doesn't widen the screen; it makes you widen your eyes. The world has opened: it is the power of art.
Read full articleThe style, the narrative and the message may not be particularly revolutionary in themselves, but Bertolucci as a director with enormous promise is still in there, pitching away.
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