Synopsis
Bernardo Bertolucci's adaptation of Alberto Moravia is one of cinema's most beautiful films about ugliness — fascism imagined as a man who joins because he wants to be ordinary. Vittorio Storaro's camera turns Mussolini's Rome into a sequence of architectural traps.
Did You Know?
- Vittorio Storaro's cinematography redefined how color could carry meaning.
- Influenced Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, and countless others.
- The dance sequence was choreographed in a single nine-minute take.
- Trintignant called it the film he was most proud of.
- Bertolucci was 28 when he directed it.
Iconic Quotes
- "I am a man who must be normal."
- "Tell me you love me."
- "I have to denounce you."
- "Have you anything to confess?"
- "Conform!"
