One of the all-time greats, with a flabbergastingly deep mastery of time and space.
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12/15/05
The Conformist (1970)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:39
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: A commentary on fascism and beauty alike, Bernadro Bertolucci's The Conformist is acclaimed for its sumptuous visuals and extravagant, artful cinematography.
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Reviews for The Conformist
The film still holds an overwhelming power to startle and grip. If that's not a measure of a classic, I don't know what is.
12/02/05
... seems every bit the masterpiece it was when first released by Paramount.
11/28/05
Top CriticA great film, drunkenly beautiful and deeply disturbing.
11/23/05
...remains his most intriguing -- probably his best -- film.
11/23/05
As striking as Bertolucci's classic looks, there's even more powerful stuff in the storytelling.
09/22/05
Trintignant gives a mesmerizing performance as someone wrestling with his inner demons.
07/29/05
Trintignant gives a legendary performance.
07/28/05
An eye-watering testimony to the erstwhile dash of international cinema.
07/26/05
Top CriticNo review available.
05/06/04
One of Bertolucci's best films, The Conformist makes a provocative connection between repressed sexual desires and fascist politics.
07/30/03
There are excesses in the film, but they are balanced by scenes of such unusual beauty and vitality that I couldn't care less.
05/20/03
[A] beautiful, complex, massively layered adaptation of the Alberto Moravia novel.
03/10/03
This film nevertheless touches some issues that seem universal even today.
02/06/03
More like a symphonic poem than a movie. Your breath is taken away by its baroque compositions.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe brilliant mix of ideas, the audacity and originality of approach, the sensualist delight in the ravishing play of light and shadow -- all these remain, as bracing and inspirational as ever.
01/01/00
Top CriticStoraro and Bertolucci have fashioned a visual masterpiece in The Conformist, with some of the best use of light and shadow ever in a motion picture.
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