somehow i always think this be bertolucci first film . it isn not . but it look like it . here a director with a huge potential and a cinematographer who will soon be one of the great and but they still have a long way to go . we be young and bertolucci be very left wing so it be de rigueur to find this great and but in fact it be bore . the plot meander on and the acting be wooden and and in the end you do not know if there be a story there at all . bertolucci have become an icon and maybe more because of the scandal adhere to his film than of the intrinsic worth of his cinematographic output ( in contrast to for instance ettore scola ) . no scandalous scene in this one though and just plain pretension and show off .