"Here is a new talent of outstanding promise" - The New York Times
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Fabrizio’s passage to adulthood is marked by the death of an adored childhood friend and then by an affair with his aunt. He faces an existential dilemma: is it possible to maintain one’s youthful ideals and be a member of the bourgeoisie? Offering the suggestion of a libidinal politics with emancipatory potential, the film foreshadows Bertolucci’s later explorations of the link between the sexual and the political.
Cineriz. Producer: Gianni Amico. Screenwriter: Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico. Cinematographer: Aldo Scavarda. Editor: Roberto Perpignani. Cast: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini, Cristina Pariset.
35mm, b/w, 115 min.
