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 Conformista, Il (DVD)
Newest Review: ... from the chronological order of the events in the book in to a much more spliced flashback structure unravelling the story as ... more  ... the climactic moment of the plot is about to take place.
Bertolucci clinically takes apart the central character and slowly reveals what lies deep down in his tortured psyche that has lead him to this ultimate act of violence. Taking into account that this was one of Bertolucci’s (at the time only 29) earliest film before he when on to make other classic ‘Last Tango in Paris’ (1972) and ‘The Last Emperor’ (1987) it shows great maturity inventiveness in both the writing done by Bertollucci himself and the cinematogr...more |
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Conformista, Il (DVD): SEX AND POLITICS (1227 words)
by Mauri - written on 03.05.07 (Very useful, 216 readings)
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(FILM ONLY REVIEW) Often when you come to see a film adaptation of a book you love you find yourself hugely disappointed with the results, even such a valiant adaptation as the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy still inevitably lacks some of the depth of the original printed version. However ‘Il Conformista’ (The Conformist) is one glorious exception to this rule and might even be better than its source material. THE STORY ‘The Conformist’ started off as a novel by the Italian author Alberto Moravia and deals with the plight of a young man who becomes swept up by the fascist takeover in Mussolini’s Italy. It is set in 1938 where a young ...
