Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Conformist

Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy (9.8*)
This brilliant and artistic crime film has influenced every similar film since, notably Coppola's Godfather series. He even used Bertolucci's cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who would only have his film developed by a special process available nowhere but Rome, hence the dark, saturated color look that is entirely unique. Bertolucci's film is about a man, Jean-Louis Trintignant in his best role, who supports the fascist government of Italy at the expense of his conscience, just to conform and fit into society. This film brilliantly shows the dangers of selling out your ethics ("soul") to succeed in what may be a temporary situation. Dominique Sanda is the ravishing beauty that tortures his soul. Includes a beautiful shot that equates blowing leaves with death, copied many times since. Definitely Bertolucci's masterpiece, one of the best foreign language films ever.

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These are the individual film reviews of what I'm considering the best 1000 dvds available, whether they are films, miniseries, or live concerts. Rather than rush out all 1000 at once, I'm doing them over time to allow inclusion of new releases - in fact, 2008 has the most of any year so far, 30 titles in all; that was a very good year for films, one of the best ever.



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