- Format: NTSC
- Studio: Paramount
- Release Date: Dec 5 2006
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: 6303130356
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #23,472 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Product Description
Description
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.
DVD Features:
* Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese
* Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
* Original theatrical version
* "The Rise of The Conformist: The Story, The Cast" featurette
* "Shadow and Light: Filming The Conformist" featurette
* "The Conformist: Breaking New Ground" featurette
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
One of the Best
Feb 13 2007
Format:DVD
If you're looking for a good seventies thriller, this isn't going to do it for you (try 'Chinatown' or 'All the President's Men'). However...
This is a masterpiece of masterpieces. For me, only a few dozen pictures (if that many) are even in the same league as 'The Conformist.'
It's about a young Italian fascist spy in the early 1930's who longs to fit into society. He takes his new middle class bride on a honeymoon trip to Paris. While there he is given a mission to assassinate an exiled Italian couple. That's the basic plot. But there is no possible way I can express the poetry of this film. The complexity is startling. I believe that I am a relatively intelligent man, but I'm going to need to see this many times before I will even begin comprehending it. Every shot contained a world of beauty and meaning, and an overwhelming amount of perfectly handled symbolism. The dialogue, the plot, and the images were bursting with literary and philosophical references which overlapped with one another to create a beautiful tangled web. I was in a daze after five minutes.
Like Bergman's 'Persona,' this is a film too many ambitious directors have tried but failed to make. It has all the ingredients for pretentious drivel; but it avoids every trap, and navigates the tightrope with casual confidence. I am in awe; but the awe only came after the film was over. Because while I was watching I didn't have time to analyze. I was too busy revelling in the beauty of an absolutely perfect experience.
The images are so surreal; like the most gorgeous nightmare imaginable. It blurs the line between utopia and dystopia. Everyone wears bold, outrageous outfits; every set is oppressively huge; the plot is melodramatic; the themes are ridiculously universal and profound (on some level I think it represents a disturbed retelling of Plato's Myth of the Cave); and it all works. I don't think I've ever seen such an audaciously ambitious film. Bertolucci is fearless. Or reckless. 'The Conformist' is a game of Russian roulette I can't believe he pulled off.
Also this may be the greatest cinematography I have ever seen (Believe me, I don't say that lightly). The director of photography, Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Reds, Dick Tracy) is a genius. There is no way around it.
This is a masterpiece of masterpieces. For me, only a few dozen pictures (if that many) are even in the same league as 'The Conformist.'
It's about a young Italian fascist spy in the early 1930's who longs to fit into society. He takes his new middle class bride on a honeymoon trip to Paris. While there he is given a mission to assassinate an exiled Italian couple. That's the basic plot. But there is no possible way I can express the poetry of this film. The complexity is startling. I believe that I am a relatively intelligent man, but I'm going to need to see this many times before I will even begin comprehending it. Every shot contained a world of beauty and meaning, and an overwhelming amount of perfectly handled symbolism. The dialogue, the plot, and the images were bursting with literary and philosophical references which overlapped with one another to create a beautiful tangled web. I was in a daze after five minutes.
Like Bergman's 'Persona,' this is a film too many ambitious directors have tried but failed to make. It has all the ingredients for pretentious drivel; but it avoids every trap, and navigates the tightrope with casual confidence. I am in awe; but the awe only came after the film was over. Because while I was watching I didn't have time to analyze. I was too busy revelling in the beauty of an absolutely perfect experience.
The images are so surreal; like the most gorgeous nightmare imaginable. It blurs the line between utopia and dystopia. Everyone wears bold, outrageous outfits; every set is oppressively huge; the plot is melodramatic; the themes are ridiculously universal and profound (on some level I think it represents a disturbed retelling of Plato's Myth of the Cave); and it all works. I don't think I've ever seen such an audaciously ambitious film. Bertolucci is fearless. Or reckless. 'The Conformist' is a game of Russian roulette I can't believe he pulled off.
Also this may be the greatest cinematography I have ever seen (Believe me, I don't say that lightly). The director of photography, Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Reds, Dick Tracy) is a genius. There is no way around it.
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