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Il conformista (1970)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 1/18

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1/18: Oh, joy...here's another slow-moving foreign language picture: Il conformista aka The Conformist.

This time, I'm surprised Bernardo Bertolucci directed it. I thought he was better than that. This is just too pretentious which is the fatal flaw of most European pictures.

What I like is the style which is largely helped by Vittorio Storaro's cinematography and Gitt Magrini's costume design. The whole thing reminds me of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï which came out three years earlier.

Following the same tradition of Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant exudes style which makes the show bearable to watch. Stefania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda aren't bad, either. By the way, you weren't dreaming because Gastone Moschin, who plays Manganiello, was Don Fanucci in The Godfather Part II.

All in all, Il conformista has it all for a foreign language picture: slow, beautiful, boring, stylish, pretentious, and overrated.