Kick-Back Friday: #14
From 1970, Bernardo Bertolucci's Il Conformista (The Conformist) is the story of a 1930s Italian assassin who simultaneously courts and abhors the bourgeoisie. For the average American viewer, the film may languish a bit too long in the gorgeous cinematography of Vittorio Storaro,* and its Fascist symbolism (such as blindness) may be heavy handed; but it is Italian cinema, after all.
Be sure to note the actor Gaston Moschin, who plays the thug Manganiello; he shows up 4 years later in The Godfather: Part II as the Black Hand, Don Fanucci.
*Storaro went on to win DP Oscars for Apocalypse Now, Reds, and Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.
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