Released Date:
1964-05-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1531 Reviews)
Director:
Bernardo BertolucciBernardo Bertolucci (story)
Gianni Amico (screenplay)
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 a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
Released Date:
1974-10-27
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(9512 Reviews)
Director:
Luis BuèuelLuis Buèuel
Jean-Claude Carrière
One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a little room to eat.
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