Bernardo Bertolucci
Bertolucci’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to Last Tango in Paris countered his previous film’s intimate duet with a widescreen, decade-spanning multi-character epic.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Loosely based on Stendahl’s 1838 novel The Charterhouse of Parma, Bertolucci’s second feature saw him emerging from beneath the wing of Pasolinian neorealism and embracing Godard to dazzling effect.
Bernardo Bertolucci
This delicately wrought, frequently wordless romantic drama revealed a little-seen side of Bertolucci’s talents, employing quiet observation, inference and pregnant stillness rather than the director’s more familiar flamboyance and bombast.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bertolucci’s striking debut feature, made at the tender age of twenty-two, highlights both the director’s precociously flamboyant sense of style and his ability to assimilate divergent modes of filmmaking within a unified whole.
Bernardo Bertolucci
For this luxuriously erotic tribute to young lust and the transformative power of the cinema, Bertolucci returned to a defining moment of cinephilic history: the 1968 Paris protests against the French government’s removal of Henri Langlois as head of the Cinémathèque française, which predated and announced the May upheavals to come.
Bernardo Bertolucci
This visually ravishing and breathtakingly expansive biography of deposed emperor Pu Yi won nine Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Bernardo Bertolucci
"This must be the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to be the most liberating movie ever made."—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker. The most controversial film of its era, Bertolucci’s barrier-breaking erotic drama is still shocking today—not for its long-exceeded sexual explicitness, but for the nakedness and ferocity of its emotions.
Bernardo Bertolucci
The final installment in Bertolucci’s unofficial "Eastern Trilogy" (after The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky), Little Buddha is an immersive exploration of a radically different time, place and culture.
Bernardo Bertolucci
This anthology of short films from five major European directors exemplifies the late-sixties phenomenon that saw the superstar-director omnibus film trend—exemplified in the earlier part of the decade by the Fellini/De Sica/Monicelli/Visconti Boccaccio ’70 or the Rossellini/Pasolini/Godard/Gregoretti RoGoPaG— recruited for radical left-wing ends in such projects as Loin du Vietnam.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Banned in Ontario on its initial release, Bertolucci’s controversial family drama tempers the open provocation of its subject matter—mother-son incest—with deeply resonant emotion and genuine sympathy.
Bernardo Bertolucci
A delirious, politicized contemporary riff on Dostoevsky’s The Double, Partner is Bertolucci’s most naked emulation of Godard’s signature style circa La Chinoise, from the flat, band-aid frontality and bold colours of Ugo Piccone’s striking Techniscope compositions to the Brechtian style of performance and the cartoonish lampoons of consumer culture.
Bernardo Bertolucci
An ambitious, lusciously sensual adaptation of Paul Bowles’ acclaimed novel, The Sheltering Sky follows Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich and Debra Winger), wealthy American travelers in Morocco.
Bernardo Bertolucci
A twisting, modernist maze adapted from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Spider’s Stratagem is the first of Bertolucci’s ruminations on Italy’s Fascist heritage, and also his first collaboration with his soon-to-be regular cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
Bernardo Bertolucci
A gorgeous, sun-kissed daydream of a film, Stealing Beauty marks Bertolucci’s return to a more intimate scale (and to his Italian homeland) after three successive epics.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Ripped, as they say, from the headlines of the day, Bertolucci’s clever sociopolitical satire concerns Primo (Ugo Tognazzi), a wealthy cheese factory owner, whose son is kidnapped by terrorists.
Bernardo Bertolucci
n the four-year hiatus between Before the Revolution and his next feature Partner, Bertolucci accepted a commission from the petroleum company ENI and Italian state broadcaster RAI to make a three-part television documentary on the "path of oil" as it travels from extraction in the Middle East to refinement in Italy and from there by pipeline into the rest of Europe.