Word: sanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conformist features the year's freshest colors, passionate direction, and a beautiful girl who can act, Dominique Sanda. It is also meaningfully ridden with guilt and melancholy. Filmmaker Bernardo Bertollucci--once a Godard acolyte--here encloses himself in circular storytelling and claustrophobic environment. A repressed homosexual (Jean-Louis Trintignant) turns to Fascism to become one of the boys, can't cut the mustard even then, and finally returns to simpering solitude when Mussolini falls. The film examines the paths decadence travels in a decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed...
...builds for his story. The tennis players, most of them Jews, are welcomed into the grounds because of their exclusion from the Ferrara tennis club under the new "Jewish laws." Their mood is carefree, nevertheless, and is echoed by that of their hosts, the blond ice-maiden Micol (Dominique Sanda), and her sickly brother Alberto (Helmut Berger). Among their guests are Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a childhood friend, and Malnate (Fabio Testi), a gentile visitor from Milan. Wrinkling her nose at Malnate's Fascist predilection for the workers of Ferrara, Micol returns his appraising once-over with "you're too much...
...REAL PROOF of an all--too--worldly' morality lies in Dominique Sanda's Micol. Showing herself as an almost incestuous alter ego to Helmut Berger's Alberto, her cool beauty fails to mask a festering decadence that has been epitomized by Berger's own performances in Visconti's The Damned, and Bertollucci's The Conformist. While society is being corrupted outside the garden, the self-contained life-style perpetuated by the Finzi-Continis on the inside is rotting at the core. Raised as a bluestocking, Micol quips to Giorgio that she's writing her thesis on Emily Dickenson, "a dried...
...CONFORMIST. Bernardo Bertolucci's flamboyant threnody to Italian Fascism featuring a superbly saturnine Jean-Louis Trintignant and an exotic Dominique Sanda...
...Fascists dispatch him to France to kill one of his former college professors, and he combines the assignment with a honeymoon trip for his addled bride (Stefania Sandrelli). The meeting with his instructor and an intense assignation with the professor's wife (Dominique Sanda), reinforce his cynicism but weak en his homicidal resolve. The killing must be carried out by others while Marcello huddles in the back seat of a car, staring blankly at the slaughter...