This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.
Il Conformista (The Conformist)
There is some amazing cinematography and composition in this movie. I am still completely baffled by the scene where they are making love on the train with the sunset in the background. I have never seen anything like that in a movie before. Even with CGI now, it's just a composition of colors that just seems unattainable. I don't know how they did it.
Apart from a number of absolutely stunning images like this, the rest of the movie was largely dull and alienating to me. I cared nothing from pretty much all of the characters. They all seemed distant to me.
The movie seems so entrenched in a certain time and place and maybe even stuck in the mind of the filmmakers that perhaps I would have appreciated it more if my history was closer to that context. I do also understand that the Marcello is supposed to be sort of without peresonality. He's the CONFORMIST. But I still feel like I was missing something. I'm not going to speculate on it for too long though.
Rating: 4/10