FILM SCREENING: The Conformist February 1, 2007

In this dazzling film, Bertolucci manages to combine the bravura style of Fellini, the acute sense of period of Visconti and the fervent political commitment of Elio Petri — and, better still, a lack of self-indulgence.
Adapted by Bertolucci from an Alberto Moravia novel, "The Conformist" is at once a study of one man and an entire society. A traumatized product of a decayed aristocratic family, Jean-Louis Trintignant's Marcello, whom we meet at 30 in 1937, is a respected professor of philosophy. He's also a repressed homosexual so determined to maintain his respectability at all costs that he is ripe for recruitment by a Fascist espionage organization for a deadly mission that he believes will atone for a terrifying youthful incident.

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