Il Conformista/The Conformist (1970) - Bernardo Bertolucci
Related: Italian literature - Bernardo Bertolucci - Alberto Moravia
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The subtlety of composition, decor, and
atmosphere within a single shot denotes
the presence of a master. The time is the 30s,
revealed in dress, wallpaper, style of couch.
The slanting rays of the sun add to the
pent-up erotic tension of a moment soon
to erupt in a sexual encounter on the floor. --Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel
The Conformist is a 1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, based on the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia. In it a weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, who is now a political dissident. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conformist [Jan 2005]
The Conformist (1970) criticised Fascist ideology, examining the relationship between nationhood and nationalism, as well as issues of popular taste and collective memory. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci [Jan 2005]
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