在这部革命前夕剧情/爱情片中,回到家乡柏尔马拍摄的《革命之前》，是贝托鲁奇首次在人性探讨以外加进政治意识的作品。影片描述一个中产阶段的知识青年如何徘徊在理想与现实之间的犹豫感。他想和人谈革命，谈感情，但当他爱上他的姨母，却为这种感情觉得内疚和痛苦不安。终于他斗不过现实，和一个自己不大喜欢的少女结婚。影片虽不是贝托鲁奇的个人自传，但在电影里他却尽现上世纪六十年代的时代氛围，年少气盛的他在片中绝对是火气十足。
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.
"我希望所有东西都不会动"。空想的革命与扭曲的爱情。九月：谁知道我们秋天的时候会在什么地方。
