Word: conformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legendary period for movies: The Conformist, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Five Easy Pieces, Murmur of the Heart, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, The Sorrow and the Pity. The list supports the idea that America is no longer divided into two publics, the demanding and the undiscerning. Thanks in part to movies, the line between high and popular art has faded into a blur...
...Conformist, Bertolucci explored the personal life of a fascist, flirting with psycho-history. But his film argues the connection between sexual repression and fascism even less clearly than the novel by Alberto Moravia on which it was based. So the psychology of the characters become subordinate to the suspense and aesthetic ebullience which carried the film...
...some of Bertolucci's characteristic romantic ambivalence toward modern life shines through. Paris in rich golds and browns is even more pleasing than it was in The Conformist. In the final phase of the film, even this romance breaks down, as Brando walks past wrecked buildings and muttering peep shows. Still, the film has such a fluid pictorial style that it often seems to visually glorify all eroticism, no matter how painful. If the world is dying, it is doing so in a grand and passionate manner where even the greatest decadence is romanticized by hyperbole...
...answer to the broader issues will not be found by limiting the search to the "radical" or neo-Marxist track. The Marxist tradition, to be sure, has contributed much to thinking in this field and interested students (like young people at other times) are attracted by its non-conformist and more Utopian aspects. Yet there are other models (e.g. Weber) by which to approach these issues and it would be ironic to launch the search for a broader and more complex view of economics by matching the overly narrow neo-classical paradigm (to use the language of this debate) with...
BRATTLE THEATER. The Conformist 5:30, 9:30. Burn...