• Director(s):

    LEFEBVRE (SEBASTIEN)

  • Producer(s):

    CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE (LA), ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the most important representatives of a generation of angry youth who started their film careers in 1960s Italy. “I like to think of myself as small underground director who infiltrated commercial cinema to create disorder” Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990

Prima della rivoluzione, made in 1964, questions the role of the communist intellectual. Tempted by theory (confronting Marx with Freud) and by aesthetics (a fascination for opera), these themes are at the heart of his work, which includes adaptations of Borges (The Spider’s Stratagem) and Moravia (The Conformist). The relationship between sex and society lies beneath his tremendous success Last Tango in Paris (1972). The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and Little Buddha are ambitious frescoes that move away from Europe, but to where he later returned, in particular with Innocents, made in 2003, and Me and You in 2012, in which he revisited his initial obsessions.