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Tag Archives: Bernardo Bertolucci
Before the Revolution / Prima della Rivoluzione (1964) Bernardo Bertolucci, Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Parma, 1962. Fabrizio, a young student, warns of the difficulty of reconciling the middle Read More »
Last Tango in Paris (1972) Bernardo Bertolucci, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman Read More »
Stealing Beauty (1996) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Read More »
1900 (1976) Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men Read More »
The Spiders Stratagem (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Drama, Mystery
Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. Read More »
La commare secca / The Grim Reaper (1962) Bernardo Bertolucci, Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Partner. (1968) Bernardo Bertolucci, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano, Drama
La luna / Luna (1979) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori, Drama
Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict.
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Il conformista / The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Drama
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello’s mind.
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