THE CONFORMIST

AN ITALIAN MASTERPIECE 

THE ART OF POLITICS ON FILM

This week it the turn of the Italians with Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematic masterpiece THE CONFORMIST told in a non linear structure it explores politics, morality, sexuality and the search for acceptance. Set in Fascist Italy in the 1930s it tells the story Marcello and his desperation to aline himself with the Fascist party, to do so he agrees to assassinate a well known ant-Fascist intellectual and Marcello's old professor, set in flashback the film looks at guilt, loyalty, power, belonging, the church and the outsider. THE CONFORMIST is a cleverly crafted work of art that still manages to ask questions of the viewer.