Word: conformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ancient Stairs could have used more crises. The movie tips its hand instantly. Time (1930) and place (a mad house in Italy) add up to two inevitable points: there is no escaping insanity, and Fascism outside the walls is a greater madness than anything the asylum contains. After The Conformist, after...
...voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near Brighton, she asked herself in the classic fashion: "Why should I be supposed to have no other interests than Willie and my children?" By then she had met Parnell, and the question was already...
...Conformist, 5:30, 9:35 p.m.; The Crook...
...Bertolucci's film 1900. The object of his love is a free-spirited flapper named Ada, played by a free-spirited actress named Dominique Sanda. Sanda, 23, is irresistible to most of Europe's leading film makers: in 1970 Bertolucci gave her a starring role in The Conformist and later conceived Last Tango in Paris with her hi mind (she was unavailable). The late Vittorio De Sica, equally enchanted, cast her as the doomed heiress in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and she has also appeared in a film by Luchino Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge...
...years, is a sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted...