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SKINOPSIS

Desperate to fit in and too old to join a frat, Marcello Clerici (Trintignant) joins up with the Italian Fascist Secret Service, gets himself a ditzy, trophy wife and agrees to kill his former mentor, a radical University professor.

Hmmm... Maybe he did join a fraternity.

Ever the efficient robo-goon, Marcello's assignment coincides with his honeymoon trip to France. Good thing too, because Gulia (Stefania Sandrelli), his slinky new bride is the perfect motivational tool for murder... At least for Marcello. To anybody else she's the perfect motivational tool for hot, hot sex. Hell, we'd be greasing her up and breaking her in like a new baseball mitt - you know, as if it were our honeymoon or something. But not Marcello, he's gunning for some silly professor that no one except him and his stupid frat cares about. In his defense, he does have it bad for another hot lady - Anna Quadri (Dominique Sanda), the lesbian who just so happens to be married to his target. And it's highly probable that he lost his libido along with his personality and balls somewhere down the road to becoming a complete jerk-off, drone (a road that we know involved a gay experience at the age of 13 and more than likely some Fascist hazing activities like togas, keg-stands and assassinating outspoken, dissidents).

Both of the gals in Marcello's miserable life show some tittage (when getting it on with the frat-cist, although he probably barely noticed). And Gulia spins around and shows her ass too. Ugh. Just go get your stupid professor, Marcello. We'll stay with the ladies.

-- Paul James

REVIEW
This fascinating exploration of the emotional roots of Fascism in pre-war Italy ranks as one of the best Italian films of the 1970s. Trintignant stars as Marcello, a repressed homosexual traumatized by a childhood incident in which he shot the family chauffeur after a seduction attempt. Now as an adult, Marcello longs for conformity and appears to find it when he joins the Italian Fascist Secret Service and tries to hide his homosexuality by marrying a vapid, petite bourgeois woman he barely tolerates. Sent to assassinate his former professor who is now a leading dissident, he meets and is "attracted" to a lesbian and anti-fascist (the alluring Sanda), who eventually develops into the moral adversary to Marcello's perverted beliefs. Sanda, who performs an exhilarating tango with Sandrelli, is a strong counterweight to Trintignant's Marcello. (Italian with English subtitles)

PRODUCT FORMAT INFORMATION

DVD Widescreen: $13.49 (Extended Edition)

Availability: In stock and ready to ship

Running Time: 111 minutes

Close Caption: No

Region Code: 1

UPC: 097360812145

Studio: Paramount

Languages: Italian Dolby Digital Mono (Primary), English Dolby Digital Mono, French Dolby Digital Mono, Portuguese Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish Dolby Digital Mono, English Subtitles, Portuguese Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles

Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen

Features:

Featurette: "The Rise of The Conformist: The Story, the Cast"; "Shadow and Light: Filming The Conformist"; "The Conformist: Breaking New Ground"