Bernardo Bertolucci broke the rules to skewer fascism in The Conformist
- Written by Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
What makes a film a classic? In this video series, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at a classic film and analyses its brilliance.
Great Italian directors of the 1960s and 1970s were skilled visual stylists. Cinematic examples include L’Aventura (1960), The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971).
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist,...





