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Movie Review for Conformist, The
Movie Review for
Conformist, The
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Conformist, The | | |
| Also known as: | Il Conformista |
19 Reviews total.
Release date: 10/22/1970
Run length: 112 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Thriller
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Adaptation
Summary:
An Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes to France to arrange the assassination of his former teacher, now a political dissident.
Reviews of Conformist, The
By
Nick Barbaro
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
[A] beautiful, complex, massively layered adaptation of the Alberto Moravia novel.
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
Bertolucci's reckless, youthful skill (he was 29) and Storaro's ravishing photography hold it tog...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
Bertolucci's masterpiece was controversial at the time due to its psycho-sexual approach to the f...
By
Chris Cabin
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Bertolucci never made another film that even came close to The Conformist
By
David Thomson
of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
A great film, drunkenly beautiful and deeply disturbing.
By
Kevin Thomas
of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
... seems every bit the masterpiece it was when first released by Paramount.
Reviews of Conformist, The
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
Trintignant gives a mesmerizing performance as someone wrestling with his inner demons.
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
Storaro and Bertolucci have fashioned a visual masterpiece in The Conformist, with some of the be...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
[Bertolucci's] application of stunning cinematic beauty to an ugly character study could be cited...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
The exquisite reverie of a death dance (political and sexual), filmed by a wizard of barely subli...
By
Andrew Wright
of The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (7/0)
One of the all-time greats, with a flabbergastingly deep mastery of time and space.
By
Michael Atkinson
of Village Voice (7/0)
An eye-watering testimony to the erstwhile dash of international cinema.
Reviews of Conformist, The
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (7/0)
More like a symphonic poem than a movie. Your breath is taken away by its baroque compositions.
By
Hal Hinson
of Washington Post (7/0)
The brilliant mix of ideas, the audacity and originality of approach, the sensualist delight in t...
By
Stephen Hunter
of Washington Post (7/0)
The movie is pure magic as story, as drama, as photography, as conviction, as everything except i...
By
Vincent Canby
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
There are excesses in the film, but they are balanced by scenes of such unusual beauty and vitali...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
The headier aspects and New Wave stylings do make it worthwhile.
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
The film still holds an overwhelming power to startle and grip. If that's not a measure of a clas...
Reviews of Conformist, The
By
Steven Rea
of Philadelphia Inquirer (3/4) No reference
As striking as Bertolucci's classic looks, there's even more powerful stuff in the storytelling.
Movie Distributors
Paramount Pictures Production Companies
Marianne Productions
Maris Film
Maran Films Movie Studios
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