The Conformist (Extended Edition) | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli

The Conformist (Extended Edition) | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli | Classic!

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	The Conformist (Extended Edition) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli Paramount, 2006 average customer review:based on 65 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

From Bernardo Bertolucci comes this stunning masterwork which explores the rise of fascism in Italy. A young wealthy follower of Mussolini is called on to kill a former college professor forcing him to examine why he associates sex with violence while coming to grips with his own homosexuality. Jean-Louis Trintignant Stefania Sandrelli Dominique Sanda starSystem Requirements:Run Time: 111 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 097360812145 Manufacturer No: 081214

MASTERPIECE COMPLETE AT LAST

Finally the complete masterpiece by Bernardo Bertolucci is on DVD in a very good restoration. There are so many beautiful and ground-breaking scenes that one cannot enumerate them all.

One I will mention is the scene where Sandrelli is in a black and white diagonally-patterned dress moving about and dancing in a room with horizontal shadows created by gently moving venetian blinds. Mesmerising.

Dominique Sanda is enigmatic and a perfect ploy for the conflicted thoughts and sexual longings of Trintignant. The cinematography by the genius Storaro is breathtaking and the costumes and locations are authentic and beautifully gloomy - the locations, that is.

It's great to have this seminal movie of the early seventies issued again on DVD and is essential for any film aficianado.

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Classic!

It is a year of Bernardo Bertolucci's revival. Everyone was talking about "The Conformist" this year and I have decided to see the film again. Based on Moravia's book, film depicts young man, in his early thirties, doing his best to fit in society of the fascist Italy of the pre world war II era. The entire film is symbolism of man's search for himself and discovery of one's true identity. Marcello, the main character of the story, is a member of the secret fascist group in charge of hunting down and eliminating exiled intellectuals. In the course of the assignment, which incidentally takes place during Marcello's honeymoon in Paris, Marcello reconnects with his former philosophy professor he is tasked to eliminate. With flashbacks from his childhood and completion of the assignment, Marcello finally uncovers that behind the facade of happily married man and a father, he is damaged homosexual whose denial led him to a life of professional assasin whose life is full of treason, murder and misplaced ideals. This is a masterpiece of a film. Everything is pure perfection: the actors, costumes, colors, symbols, music. Bertolucci gets credit for not only presenting the story in all its complexity but for assembling great cast both in front and behind the camera. This film is a classic masterpiece. One of the fims that stays in one's personal library.

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Tense and psychological drama/thriller

The Conformist is by far a well made and original film, though I can easily say that it is not for all taste, and it may confuse some people. Its not an easy viewing experience, and may take a couple viewings to really understand. Worth it none the less.
I'd like to comment that some viewers (and Mr. Maltin) were led to believe that the main character had repressed homosexuality, which seems to be false because if one watches the film closely, it should be clear that as a young boy, he was sexually led and molested by a young homosexual man who was at first just being a friend to Marcello. Marcello is unconfortable with what is happening and out of fear he shoots at the homosexual man. The incident left its mark on Marcello for the rest of his life, complicating the childs mind forever. It is clear to me that Marcello desires women. He hides behind the mask of a fascist conformist because he wants to be comfortable and live a normal life within the society. He doesn't have a good relationship with his parents or good memories of childhood so he is trying to escape. With the two women he is involved with in this story, are the only times we see any happiness expressed by Marcello. He is a tortured mind of confusion and angst and he does have many fears and repressed emotions. At the end when the fascist goverment seems to have fallen we see Marcello and his blind friend walking the street, seeing the reaction of the city. He overhears a homosexual mans pickup conversation with another man, and then discovers that it is the man who molested him as a child who wasn't actually killed by the bullet he had shot. He then expresses some inner turmoil to the man who then runs away. In other words, Marcello flips out.

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The Conformist

Made by Bernado Bertolucci in 1971, it is a study of a young man striving for position in Fascist Italy in the 1930s. The series of events that overwhelm him put him into the position of a willing murderer.

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