The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Direction
Bertolucci's early Godard worship phase — all jump cuts and manifestos.
Cinematography
Gréco's handheld black-and-white that screams 'we have no budget but ideas'.
Acting
Clémenti plays both twins with unsettling mirror-precision.
Director
Bernardo Bertolucci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bertolucci was 27 and openly stealing from Godard's 'Masculin Féminin'; Godard reportedly called it 'plagiarism with talent.'
Shot during the actual 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Rome — the revolutionary fervor on screen was documentary-adjacent.
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