The Conformist 12/12/23

Bernardo Bertolucci re-introduced high style and intense period stylistics to the political thriller, in Alberto Moravia’s autopsy of the perversion that was Italian fascism. Jean-Louis Trintignant is the ambitious lickspittle who seizes the job of assassinating an inconvenient academic — all the while wooing his girlfriend Stefania Sandrelli. More complications come with the target professor’s beautiful young wife, Dominique Sanda. The icy cold masterpiece has one of the better thriller endings ever. Charlie Largent reviews. On Blu-ray from Raro Video / Kino Lorber.
12/12/23