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If you have not read the book the director's interview at the end would be useful.. .
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....il cinema italiano quando era cinema.... Un qualcosa che non esiste più. Edizione director's cut con la sequenza del "ballo dei ciechi" tagliata all'epoca. Da collezionare al volo.
Bertolluci's 'The Conformist' is a visual exaggeration of a time in history when fascism was in the ascendancy in Europe.Jean Louis Tringnant plays the emblematic central character, a man determined to be 'normal' and be the ultimate conformist. He is employed by the Italian fascist party to investigate possible subversive activity and is assigned the task of entrapping a radical professor and his wife, played by Dominique Sanda.Tringnant is infatuated with Sanda, who predominantly lesbian is in love with his wife! Trignant married his wife because he thinks she epitomises bourgeoise conformity and normality. For me the film still portrays fascism almost as an exoitc perversion!Trignant is trying to deny his own sexual nature hence his destructive obedience to a political ideoloy that denies people's sexual complexity of nature.He follows the party line of destroying subversives and degenerates, although himself besotted with Dominque Sanda, a flamboyant lesbian who tries to seduce his wife.i think this interpretation of fascism is valid but it still ignores the scarey reality that the masses who followed fascism in Nazi Germany were just ordinary people, who did exactly what they were told and choose to believe Nazi propaganda. I once had a neighbour who was a youth during nazi Germany and was fully aware of Hitler's anti-semitism but voted Nazi because she thought he was going to eradicate high unemployment in 1930's Germany. She feels guilt for having voted for Hitler but a whole race of people suffered as the consequence of such an attitude.I believe, ordinary German people WANTED to believe Nazi propaganda, since it perpetuated the idea that their was a superior race and they belonged to it. Bertolluci's film makes 1930's Paris and Italy look seductive,the very opposite of drab and conformist! He seems to want to portray life then as alive with a vitality of people caught in political repression, which contradicts the ultimate conformity of suffocating bourgeoise respectability;surely what fascism truly represented. It certainly makes the film entrancing to watch, or is Bertloucci making the film so visually extravagant to portray the pretensions of fascism and its dangerous allure? The assasination of the radical Professor and his wife in a daylit forest is magnificently staged;like opera come to life!Chilling in its use of atmosphere and staged savagery. One drawback of this DVD version is that its dubbed rather than in original language.Jean Louis Trignant's voice suffers particularly from flat toneless dubbing, the main female characters are much more successfully varied synched. 'The Conformist' seems highly representative of early seventies cinema that was trying to link sexual repression with political repression; that those who do not follow their true nature result in destroying themselves and others, even those they love.This concept still makes it a powerful and provocative film, albeit not necessarily a complex one.Read full review
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