
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a... (Full plot summary below)
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This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittOne of the great Bertolucci's most acclaimed films...Trintignant gives a legendary performance. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe Conformist has a decadent visual beauty about it that's breathtaking. But as striking as Bertolucci's classic looks, there's even more powerful stuff in the storytelling. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonMasterfully arranged for color, texture, decor and camera fluidity, The Conformist is more like a symphonic poem than a movie. (Review of 1994 Release) |
| GuardianPeter BradshawBertolucci's film has the compelling quality of a bad dream. |
| Film4Richard LuckThe Conformist isn't just a triumph, it's one of the greatest movies ever made. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmAll hail the revival of one of Bernardo Bertolucci's best films. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaTalvez o melhor filme de Bertolucci, esta obra-prima magnificamente fotografada por Storaro é tão formidável em sua construção estética e narrativa que cada praticamente todo plano se presta a análises longas e profundas. |
| Slant MagazineViolet LuccaPhotographed by Vittorio Storraro, it's a mélange of the sensual haziness of '70s European art-house fair and the high-contrast, anxious angles of film noir |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceVisual splendor reigns supreme in Bertolucci's dazzling historical dreamscape |
| Parallax ViewSean AxmakerIt'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. |