Webster University Film Series Presents
Benardo Bertolucci: The Conformist

February 6 at 7PM
The Conformist (Il Conformista) (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy,
120 min.)
Bertolucci's Masterpiece about sex and politics opens in 1938 in
Rome, where Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has just taken a job
working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who
will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris
on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there.
Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into
power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his
bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a
silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are
linked in Marcello's mind.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for seniors, students from
other schools and Webster alumni, and $4 for Webster University staff
and faculty unless otherwise noted. All films screened in Moore
Auditorium on the campus of Webster University, 470 E. Lockwood,
Webster Groves, MO unless noted.

The Webster University Film Series receives funding from the Regional
Arts Commission; the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis;
and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.