THE CONFORMIST (1970)

Bernardo Bertolucci’s elegant, chilling, expressionist, socio-political noir about the psychology of fascism unfolds through a complex flashback structure, as Marcello, a young employee of the fascist government in 1938, is tasked to assassinate his former acquaintance and notoriously outspoken anti-fascist professor.

Marcello is a metaphor for Italy as a whole during these tumultuous times under Il Duce, in constant conflict of how to behave, whether sexually, religiously or politically. Bertolucci portrays these themes with constant symbolism and metaphor in each character and situation; much like Pier Paolo Pasolini, with whom he began his career as an assistant director.

Richly designed by Ferdinando Scarfiotti to reflect the fashions and imposing architecture of the Mussolini era, the film is stunningly shot by Vittorio Storaro, whose gleaming, dynamic cinematography later proved an inspiration to American directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola

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