Episode 585: The Conformist (1970)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Released in 1970, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is set primarily in 1938 Europe. We follow the life of Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintingnant), the titular conformist, a man who tries desperately to fit in and follow the party line.

Samm Deighan and Dahlia Schweitzer join Mike to discuss this gorgeous, unsettling film.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:23.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Observe this man closely.
0:43.6	His eyes have seen violence.
0:47.2	His nose has breathed corruption.
0:51.7	His mouth has whispered, both love and betrayal.
0:56.4	Paramount Pictures presents the conformist.
1:00.2	A film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
1:03.5	A study in the seduction of the soul.
1:10.5	The rape of the mind.
1:17.6	The art of political assassination.
1:20.6	The conformist, acclaimed at the Berlin Film Festival. The conformist filmed in the palaces of power
1:39.3	in the streets and secret cells of revolution.
1:45.0	The conformist hailed at the New York Film Festival, starring Jean-Louis-Trentignor
2:08.6	surpassing even his roles in Z,
2:13.6	and a man and a woman.
2:24.3	The conformist, a film that lashes out of a world gone man.
2:37.0	And all at once, the camera becomes an instrument of passion.
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