The Conformist
Summary:
The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can "belong." Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly "conforms" to the ideological fa... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Marcello Clerici)
Dominique Sanda - (Anna Quadri)
Pierre Clémenti - (Pasqualino Semirama)
Stefania Sandrelli - (Giulia)
Gastone Moschin - (Manganiello)
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Review:
An international art cinema success, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970) turned the more straightforward Alberto Moravia novel into an elliptically subjective story about the psychological birth of a 1930s Italian Fascist. To show how Clerici is driven and entrapped by a past sexual trauma, Bertolucci cuts from Clerici's journey... Continue >>
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