Fresh
The unsettling blend of images and ideas in this movie cannot satisfactorily be disentangled or decoded, and it's the very strangeness of Bertolucci's masterpiece that has made it so influential in cinema history.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Overview
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Director and cast
- Bernardo Bertolucci Director
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici
- Stefania Sandrelli as Giulia
- Gastone Moschin as Manganiello
- Dominique Sanda as Anna Quadri
- Enzo Tarascio as Professor Quadri
- Fosco Giachetti as Il colonnello
- José Quaglio as Italo
- Pierre Clémenti as Lino
- Yvonne Sanson Cast
- Milly Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bertolucci's boldest and most expressive film ...
Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Fresh
The Conformist is celebrated for cinematographer Vittorio Storaro's tumbling autumn leaves, but its emotional impact involves a tumbling soul.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
Ravishing to the eye but less than fully satisfying to the mind.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The movie is pure magic as story, as drama, as photography, as conviction, as everything except its ideas.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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