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...CONFORMIST. Bernardo Bertolucci's flamboyant threnody to Italian Fascism featuring a superbly saturnine Jean-Louis Trintignant and an exotic Dominique Sanda...
...leave conservatives justifications for dictating "moral" behavior to society, or enforcing Christian ethics. Laws against most kinds of sex, more kinds of drugs, desecration of flags, pornography, gambling, breaking of the Sabbath, abortions, and free speech have to go. Out of their distaste for diverse, self-indulgent, and non-conformist lifestyles, conservatives have rejected the sanctity of individual rights; indeed, many conservatives have equated Rand's libertarianism to anarchism, Led by William F. Buckley of National Review--who has written that when the state's good is threatened by individual rights, the individual forfeits his rights--conservatives have heaped abuse...
...eliminating human life in his watercolors, Mr. Feild assured no contamination of the natural beauty by an ideological or social content. But the artist himself is a vehement social critic, a non-conformist who has often been considered "a rather dangerous sort of communist." The Aleutian bomb, contemporary art, the environmental crisis, the Indochina war indicate to him a social insanity...
...could be "demystified." These who could not afford Bergman's moral imperatives moved to a political analysis of film's purpose as a commodity. The combination of ideological certainty with artistic virtuosity that Godard has inspired in many filmmakers, has produced considerable tension: young Bernardo Bertolucci, director of The Conformist , underwent psychiatric treatment because of his split with his mentor: his new film deals entirely with the bourgeoisie, and on their own terms...
Trintignant's characterization is studiously and acceptably stern. But Bertolucci works the kind of terrible cruelty on his actresses that hasn't been seen since The Damned, a film to which The Conformist bears several other unhappy resemblances. Women in this film are either stooges (like Marcello's wife) or succubi (like the professor's), corrupted or ripe for corruption. They only serve to accentuate the film's air of perfumed decadence...