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Conformist

The Conformist

Il Conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci


  • Country: Italy/France/West Germany
  • Year: 1970
  • Language: Italian
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  • Runtime: 111 min.

A gripping examination of the intersection of sex and politics, Bernardo Bertolucci’s adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s acclaimed novel is an opulent palimpsest of Freud and Marx, Godard and Vogue.

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A gripping examination of the intersection of sexand politics, Bernardo Bertolucci’s adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s acclaimednovel luxuriates in meticulous Art Deco design, Vittorio Storaro’s impossiblylush cinematography, and the overpoweringly sensual beauty of stars DominiqueSanda and Stefania Sandrelli.In thefascist Italy of the 1930s, Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) seeksacceptance, and a refutation of his hidden homosexuality, by joining the secretpolice, where he is assigned to assassinate his former professor, now a leftistpolitical refugee living in France. An opulent palimpsest of Freud and Marx,Godard and Vogue, The Conformistdefinitively signaled Bertolucci’s shift to the baroque style that he wouldtake even further in the epic 1900and the Academy Award®-winning The LastEmperor.


This film will screen as an exclusive engagement in December, as part of the continuation of Essential Cinema and a preview of TIFF Cinematheque's Bernardo Bertolucci retrospective.
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