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The Conformist

The Conformist

1971 · 108 min · IT · R · 7.7 (582 votes)
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti · Music Georges Delerue

“A dazzling movie.”

Drama

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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A visually opulent and psychologically dense journey into the heart of conformity and moral compromise. It feels like a chilling, melancholic dream, draped in exquisite period detail and unsettling shadows. The atmosphere is thick with existential dread and the quiet terror of a soul lost to ideological pressures, all unfolding with deliberate, artful grace.

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