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The Conformist

A dazzling movie.

1971 · 1h 48m · R Drama
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

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Overview

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

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98%
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Fresh

The unsettling blend of images and ideas in this movie cannot satisfactorily be disentangled or decoded, and it's the very strangeness of Bertolucci's masterpiece that has made it so influential in cinema history.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh

Bertolucci's boldest and most expressive film ...

Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Fresh

The Conformist is celebrated for cinematographer Vittorio Storaro's tumbling autumn leaves, but its emotional impact involves a tumbling soul.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh

Ravishing to the eye but less than fully satisfying to the mind.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

The movie is pure magic as story, as drama, as photography, as conviction, as everything except its ideas.

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

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