At the 6th Italian Movie Festival in Israel | Cinema Italia 2018 צ’ינמה איטליה, a movie by Bernardo Bertolucci, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio.
The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can “belong.” Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly “conforms” to the ideological fashions of his day. In this case, director Bernardo Bertolucci suggests that Marcello’s desire to conform is rooted in his latent homosexuality. In addition to its strong storyline, the film is critically revered for the astonishing production design by Nedo Azzini, which, together with Vittorio Storaro’s camerawork, recreates the atmosphere of Fascist Italy with some of the most complex visual compositions ever seen on film, filled with highly stylized uses of angles, shapes, and shadows.
In Italian, with Hebrew & English subtitles.
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“Cinema Italia 2018” is the result of the close and fruitful collaboration between ADAMAS Italia Israel, the Italian Cultural Institutes of Tel Aviv and Haifa, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Cinematheques of Israel.
Saturday, April 6th, at 16:15
Haifa Cinematheque, Shderot HaNassì 142 – Haifa