Born in Parma in 1940, Bertolucci began his career as an assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini on his 1961 film Accattone and directed his first feature at the age of 21.

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In 1962, the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose first films were latter-day variants on neo-realism, took a flying leap into hectic modernity with this short, apocalyptic screed against the habits of professional filmmaking and the un-Christian coldness of contemporary Christendom.

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