The Conformist was suggested by our member Colin Marsh, who says, 'Please show Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 political thriller masterpiece. Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli and very rarely shown nowadays.'

Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish period thriller stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed bureaucrat in Mussolini’s Italy who is assigned to kill his former professor. Bertolucci’s elegant but chilling drama about the psychology of fascism unfolds through a complex flashback structure, as Marcello Clerici (Trintignant) is driven in final pursuit of Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), his onetime philosophy tutor and now a renowned anti-Fascist whom he has been ordered to assassinate. Richly designed by Ferdinando Scarfiotti to reflect the fashions and imposing architecture of the Mussolini era, the film is stunningly shot by Vittorio Storaro, whose gleaming, dynamic cinematography later proved an inspiration to American directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Please note, the screening on Monday 4 May is our free members' screening whilst Wednesday 13 May is a regular screening, which is open to the general public.