1971 - The Conformist
Movie of the Year: 1971
The Conformist
Revisiting The Conformist (1971) – Power and Identity in Italian Cinema
In this episode of Movie of the Year, Ryan, Greg, and Nate take on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1971), a visual and psychological masterpiece that defined the aesthetics of 1970s cinema. Through its haunting beauty and moral ambiguity, The Conformist examines how a man’s need to belong leads him down a path of destruction.
As the Taste Buds explore, Bertolucci’s film is more than a political allegory—it’s an intimate portrait of repression, desire, and the fragile nature of…
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