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The Conformist.
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In the following review, Wagstaff examines the middle period of Bertolucci's career, focusing on The Spider's Stratagem and The Conformist.
In the reign of Augustus, Horace admonished po...
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In the following review, Romney discusses the obscurity of Bertolucci's The Conformist.
It's not uncommon to come across films that completely bypass understanding. What is rare is a fil...
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In the following review, Wagstaff traces how Bertolucci's The Conformist communicates its major theme and how the reinsertion of a deleted scene affects the overall message of the film.
Few peo...
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Critical Essay by Bill Nichols
The Conformist, like several other recent films, deals with the complex question of the fascist sensibility…. For example, three characteristics of the fascist se...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Kreitzman
From start to finish [The Conformist] has been immaculately conceived and constructed. Bertolucci's keen eye for architecture here reaches its most perfect synt...
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Critical Essay by Joshua Gilder
Alberto Moravia's The Conformist, perhaps his most famous novel, was in many ways a convincing portrait of fascist psychology, but I for one never understood wha...
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Critical Review by Chris Wagstaff
