Word: conformiste
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PARTNER, a 1968 film being shown for the first time commercially in the United States now, is a derivative, incoherent, flamboyant yet unemotional film that would deserve little mention were it not made by the same man who made Last Tango in Parish and a possibly greater film, The Conformist (1970). Its pseudo-political content, called "Marxist" by Bertolucci, is puerile at best. And there is no way to classify Partner with some sweeping phrase: even the most taxonomic of critics would have to allot a special hole for this quirky film. Partner is interesting only because it accents Bertolucci...
...ostensibly a film about second sight, but its greatest scenes have to do more with the psychological than the psychic--the way the characters, and the camera, look at things; the love scene full of remembrances. The visual events of this film are the most important since The Conformist, and if on a few occasions there are slight problems with the film, it is because of problems implicit in the story itself. The film is far from perfect. It is groping in its originality and in its attempt to rise above its subject material--that is partly what makes...
...Says Psychiatrist James Anthony: "There's definitely been a return of discipline. And with the emergence of a stronger parent has come 'the model child.'" To Anthony this spells trouble. "Personally I am much more worried about the quiet child than the rebellious child. The conformist child goes along for years, and then suddenly trouble comes in some big, dramatic action...
...Conformist...
Born. To Jean-Louis Trintignant, 43, low-keyed French actor who starred in A Man and a Woman, Z, My Night at Maud's and The Conformist, and Nadine Trintignant, 38, film writer (It Only Happens to Others) and director: their third child, first son; in Paris. Name: Vincent. His birth coincides with the premiere of his mother's most recently directed film, Forbidden to Know, which stars his father and features his 11-year-old sister Marie...