"Though beautifully and opulently stylized, utilizing unusual camera angles, the play of light and shadow, tints, textures, and patterns, Bertolucci succeeds in producing one of the most chilling and resoundingly truthful character studies of an individual, as well as a collective mentality, in this portrait of a weak man who succumbs to fascism for fear of being left out," Kinn and Piazza write of the 1970 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Before making "Conformist," the director had made documentaries for Shell Oil.
