Word: succubi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...