[ASB-135] 6:00PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21Il Conformista (The Conformist), 1970Directed by Bernardo BertolucciThrough a series of flashbacks, Marcello findshimself ordered to assassinate his old acquaintanceand teacher, Professor Quadri, an outspoken antiFascistintellectual now living in exile in France.Using his marriage as a convenient cover, he takeshis wife on their honeymoon to Paris where he cancarry out the mission.The film is a case study in the psychology of conformism and fascism:Marcello Clerici is a bureaucrat, cultivated and intellectual but largelydehumanized by an intense need to be ‘normal’ and to belong towhatever is the current dominant socio-political group.