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The Conformist
The movie follows 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici, a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can 'belong.' But Marcello then becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
29 August 1925, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
31 December 1909, Macarsca, Italy
11 March 1948, Paris, France
6 September 1915
26 February 1905, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
9 April 1931, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
19 March 1919, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
28 September 1942, Paris, France
25 October 1943, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
2 December 1943, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
19 January 1947, Bologna, Italy
11 December 1930, Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
28 March 1900, Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy
28 February 1923, Anguillara Veneta, Veneto, Italy
8 June 1929, San Giovanni Lupatoto, Veneto, Italy
28 November 1934, Rome, Lazio, Italy
4 January 1936, Vatican City, Vatican
5 June 1946, Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy
March 14, 2015
It's a superb performance by Trintignant, whose presence is the film is physically passive even as he tries to play the confident, intellectual leader of men.January 20, 2011
Few films really deserve the term 'masterpiece,' but this one does.September 29, 2014
Visual splendor reigns supreme in Bertolucci's dazzling historical dreamscapeFebruary 12, 2016
... heightened, exaggerated, distorted, the world reimagined by the filmmakers as something familiar yet not. It is magnificent ...November 24, 2014
It's yesteryear remembered with a combination of nostalgia and repulsion, a queasy combination that defines the film and gives it a kind of hideous allure.December 07, 2007
Ravishing to the eye but less than fully satisfying to the mind.July 25, 2015
The one and only quintessential all-time masterpiece that trades, extensively, on its ideal viewer's knowledge of the history of 20th Century interior design.August 29, 2014
The unsettling blend of images and ideas in this movie cannot satisfactorily be disentangled or decoded, and it's the very strangeness of Bertolucci's masterpiece that has made it so influential in cinema history.September 07, 2006
The movie is pure magic as story, as drama, as photography, as conviction, as everything except its ideas.February 09, 2006
Juggling past and present with the same bravura flourish as Welles in Citizen Kane, Bertolucci conjures a dazzling historical and personal perspective.December 15, 2010
The Conformist is celebrated for cinematographer Vittorio Storaro's tumbling autumn leaves, but its emotional impact involves a tumbling soul.August 26, 2014
Bertolucci's boldest and most expressive film ...