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The Conformist (Dual Format Edition) [DVD + Blu-ray] [1970]

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Jean-Louis Trintignant (Actor), Stefania Sandrelli (Actor), Bernardo Bertolucci (Director, Writer) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Gastone Moschin
  • Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Writers: Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Format: Colour
  • Language: Italian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Feb. 2012
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B005PLP5X6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 72,795 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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At the peak of his creative powers the 29 year old Bernardo Bertolucci, eschewed the influence of mentor, Jean-Luc Godard and partnered up with Vittorio Storaro and developed his own style for one of the most visually dazzling, politically and psychologically intriguing and possibly greatest of all Italian films.

Told in a non linear structure that would go on to influence The Godfather Part II (not the only influence on Coppola s film), the story begins in Rome, 1938. Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a young fascist who takes on the job of assassinating his former professor who has fled to Paris. With his girlfriend (Stefania Sandrelli) in tow he meets the professor and his young wife (Dominique Sanda). A thriller as well as study of Italian politics and psychological character, Bertolucci s Oscar nominated adaptation of Alberto Moravia s novel (an adaptation Moravia greatly admired) has gone on to influence filmmakers such as Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann and remains one of the great triumphs of world cinema.

Arrow Academy is proud to present Bernardo Bertolucci s masterpiece on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

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5.0 out of 5 starsBertolucci's vision of fascist peer pressure
By olofpalme63 on 26 Mar. 2007
Format: DVD
So desperate is Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant who also starred as a hit-man in "The Outside Man") to lead a normal life after he suffers through the psychological trauma of a sexual confrontation with the family chauffeur (played by the bizarre Pierre Clementi) when he was a child. As an adult he eventually succumbs to the political upheavals of Hitler's Nazi machine during the 1930's and conforms to Prime Minister Mussolini's fascist regime of Italy. Working as an agent for the government he's assigned a mission to assassinate a college professor in Paris France whom Mussolini believes to be a threat to the fascist party. The murder is to take place while he's honeymooning with his newly wedded wife played to perfection by the lovely and charming Stefania Sandrelli (who starred in the contoversial film "Desideria" and Bertolucci's "Partner"), who also manages to steal every scene she's in.

While ploting the assassination in Paris he encounters a problem by falling in love with the professor's wife (Dominque Sanda, who also starred in Bertolucci's "1900"). Matters are further complicated not only by his attraction to the professor's wife, but his marriage as well as his (manufactured) loyalty to the fascist regime. The eventual ending indicates what the title is and what he's always been throughout his life. Lavishly shot by the brilliant Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now & Last Tango In Paris), this is considered Bernardo (The Spider's Stratagem & The Last Emporer) Bertolucci's "breakthrough" film and perhaps his greatest acheivement in cinema as he was also nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay. This mesmerizing look at the social values of World War II Italy is not to be missed and remains one of the all-time great films of the 70's.

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Best.
By Mr. Kay-Price on 8 Dec. 2008
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Bertolucci's 'The Conformist' is a masterpiece. It occupies my top 2 movies (alongside 'Andrei Rublev' by Tarkovsky), and I'm sure will remain there forever. It's hard to explain in words what makes this film so great; the cinematography is unbelievable, the way the film simultaneously thrills you, and gets across so many ideas in it's modest running time. The characters, from Trintignant's seductive, yet hateful lead, to the two gorgeous leading ladies, down to 'Milano Calibro 9's Gastone Moschin as the lizard-like assassin, even Pierre Clementi as the child molesting Chauffeur, makes more of an impact in one scene, than most of today's lead actors do in their entire careers. It's a real shame that paramount can't bring themselves to release this film in the UK on DVD, because this film should be shown to everybody on earth, repeatedly...
Another fascinating thing (not mentioned in other reviews here), is the presence of many actors and crew who can be found on many Italian exploitation efforts of the early 70s, most notably Aldo Lado, who is the first AD on this, but also is one of the best directors of the Giallo genre ('Short Night Of The Glass Dolls', 'Who Saw her Die?' etc etc), a front runner with Argento and Martino.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNormal
By MICHAEL ACUNA on 29 May 2007
Format: DVD
Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) wants to be "normal," lead a normal life with a petite bourgeoisie wife: "She's all bed and kitchen" (Stephania Sandrelli) and all the accoutrements that that life brings with it: home, children, and a good job. But this is 1938 Italy and the ultimate in normalcy is being a fascist and so Marcello gets a job in a Fascist investigation bureau. His job is to find and assassinate any and all anti-fascists. At the age of 34, Marcello can see the light at the end of the tunnel that will take his life to what he considers normal: a mantra that he repeats over and over throughout director Bernardo Bertolucci's very fine film.

Marcello has spent his life in hiding from both his past as well as his present. He is wound up tightly, quiet, solemn, serious and seemingly not aware of the life that swirls around him. But whereas some people consciously hide yet are always aware of what surrounds them, Marcello walks around with blinkers on: blinkers that obfuscate almost every thing except his fantasy yellow brick road to Normal. What's particularly tragic about Marcello is that he doesn't understand that the concept of normalcy is a slippery slope, veritably indefinable and wholly unreachable.

There are only a handful of movies which feature a scene so unusual, so beautiful or perverse that it lingers in the mind of anyone who witnesses it. "The Conformist" contains such a scene: the iconic tango, dripping with over-the-top, blatant homosexual heat as performed by Stephania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda in a Paris nightclub while the other dancers clear the floor, drop their jaws and marvel at the sensuality of it all. More importantly, Marcello stares at his wife, eyes filled with jealousy.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn amazing film by Bertolucci
By K. Gordon TOP 500 REVIEWER on 8 July 2012
Format: DVD
For my money Bertolucci's very best film. It combines many his
recurring themes; politics (especially fascism in Italy and it's
effects), sexuality and identity, the need to belong, the struggle to
be an individual.

The film perfectly walks a knife's edge between realism and surrealism,
supported by Vitorio Storraro's breathtaking and unique cinematography.

The film works brilliantly on a simple realist level. A sort of
political thriller and character study (much like Coppola's 'The
Conversation') we follow an agent of Mussolini's secret police (a great
performance by Jean-Louis Trintignant, even dubbed into Italian) as
he's sent to assassinate one of his old professors, now teaching in
exile in Paris. On that level the film is filled with odd twists and
turns as Marcello tries to carry out his mission.

But there's also something larger and more mysterious being explored
here, from the constant not-quite-realistic images, to Marcello's
occasionally very odd (and sometimes funny) behavior, to the flashbacks
to an early homosexual encounter, we are trapped, with the character,
in a sort of Kafkaesque dream world. It's as if somehow Bertolluci has
pulled off the very neat trick of making a film that' simultaneously
objective and subjective, a dream and a reality, surreal and
hyper-real. And he makes the two dance together to create a bigger
whole.

My only tiny quibble;, a few moments seem a little too on the nose in
their symbolism for a film of such subtlety, but that's a tiny
complaint about a great film.

This DVD is not quite up to the visual level of the newer blu-ray, but is
certainly quite acceptable if you don't have a blu-ray player.
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