Il conformista (The Conformist) Reviews

Few films really deserve the term 'masterpiece,' but this one does.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Photographed 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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The art house meets Hollywood neo-noir in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, a film that isn't recognized enough as the masterpiece that it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 92/100

"The Conformist" is Bernardo Bertolucci's immaculate work of cinematic art about the conflicted mindset of a man who carries out Mussolini's fascist ideology.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

Talvez 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.

| Original Score: 5/5

One of the finest sex-and-politics thrillers ever made, blending sharp humour with riveting suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

All hail the revival of one of Bernardo Bertolucci's best films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A beautifully imagined portrait of moral and political cowardice.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Bertolucci's film has the compelling quality of a bad dream.

| Original Score: 4/5

One of the most referenced and extraordinary films in cinema history.

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The Conformist isn't just a triumph, it's one of the greatest movies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Probing, unsettling and visually compelling, The Conformist treats its audience as adults, never opting for easy closure.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A powerful story well acted by a fine cast, it doesn't have the moral outcome you might imagine. An absorbing drama with a different, albeit downbeat, twist to it.

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A visual masterpiece thanks to Storaro's keen eye and Bertolucci's assured direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

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Bertolucci never made another film that even came close to The Conformist

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

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Bertolucci's masterpiece was controversial due to its psycho-sexual approach to the fascist protag and to history, but the film's spectacular visuals and sensual texture, were recognized by all crirics.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The headier aspects and New Wave stylings do make it worthwhile.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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