Word: conformiste
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...moviegoers who are not shocked, titillated, disgusted, fascinated, delighted or angered by this early scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie, Last Tango in Paris, should be patient. There is more to come. Much more. Bertolucci, whose political melodrama The Conformist was one of the most highly praised foreign films of 1971, has marshaled his opulent visual style to tell a stark story of sex as a be-all and end-all. For boldness and brutality, the intimate scenes are unprecedented in feature films. Frontal nudity, four-letter words, masturbation, even sodomy-Bertolucci dwells uncompromisingly on them all with...
When Brando, an admirer of The Conformist, expressed an interest in the role of Paul, he and Bertolucci arranged a meeting in Paris. "For the first 15 minutes he didn't say a word; he only looked at me," Bertolucci recalls. "Then he asked me to talk about him. I was very embarrassed, but I got around it by talking about the character I had in mind for the film. He listened carefully and then said yes right away, without asking to read the script...
CINEMA II Monday-Tuesday Easy Rider, Vicious Cycles 4:15, 6, 8, 10, Wednesday-following Tuesday The Conformist plus Bill Cosby on Prejudice 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Midnight Friday-Saturday In Cold Blood plus Captain Video part...
...Tell anecdotes featuring people with comic names. Thus: "Tim Iddly was a conformist... He agreed with his boss, Ty Kune...
...express what is inside. "With Dominique," he observes, "one must scrutinize, one must search out what she sincerely thinks and feels. It is all closed inside." In the moody, half-toned study of an aristocratic Jewish family in Fascist Italy, Dominique played the sheltered, unworldly daughter. In The Conformist, another brilliant film about the same era, she was the lesbian wife of an anti-Fascist exile. In her newest movie, John Frankenheimefs Impossible Object, currently being shot in France, she plays a woman obsessed by an adulterous affair with a novelist, played by Alan Bates...