The Conformist (1970)
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- Genre Drama
- AKA Il Conformista
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- Director Bernardo Bertolucci
- Rated R
- Theatrical Release October 22nd, 1970
- US DVD Release December 5th, 2006
- Country France, Germany, Italy
Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is renowned for stylish, sweeping epics that are visual extravaganzas and masterpieces of nonlinear narrative. Set largely in prewar Italy as Mussolini’s Fascists are consolidating their power, Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) follows the descent of an ambitious professor who joins the Fascists and is enlisted as an adjunct to their secret police. One of many themes examined by the Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review



