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Synopsis

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin

Year1964
CountryItaly
Cinematic DNA
There are so many great movies, but... there’s a director named Bernardo Bertolucci and I love his movies, and I loved Before the Revolution, and I guess that’s the one, maybe. And it’s not really a movie about journalism, but I just watched it and thought, 'This is where this movie came from.'
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