About the Event
The Conformist
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
(Italy, 1970, 108 min.)
Saturday, March 2 7:00 PM
Bertolucci was 29 when he made this fierce and stylized adaptation of the novel by Alberto Moravia. Fascist Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is tasked with assassinating his former college professor. The film asks what it means to conform to a world that is mad with violence. Stunning cinematography by Vittorio Storaro and music by Georges Delerue. “Now can begin my summer of love: Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) arrives in a torrent of silk and shadow, an eye-watering testimony to the erstwhile dash of international cinema. As with few other films. . will be the most revelatory experience a fortunate pilgrim will have in a theater this year is a foregone conclusion. Bertolucci has created cinema that red-inks your inner calendar. Set entirely on rainy city afternoons and indigo evenings, you can hardly help corresponding the film to seminal mood moments in your own life” – Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
Discounted parking is available at Founder’s Court, a $6 flat rate, credit card is required.
Open to the public.