The Conformist (Italian: Il conformista) is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, and features Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, José Quaglio, Dominique Sanda and Pierre Clémenti. The film was a co-production of Italian, French, and West German film companies.
Bertolucci makes use of the 1930s art and decor associated with the Fascist era: the middle-class drawing rooms and the huge halls of the ruling elite.
The film opens with Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in Paris finalizing preparations to assassinate his former college professor, Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio). It frequently returns to the interior of a car driven by Manganiello (Gastone Moschin) as the two of them pursue the professor and his wife.
Through a series of flashbacks, we see him discussing with Italo, a blind friend, his plans to marry, his somewhat awkward attempts to join the Fascist secret police, and his visits to his morphine-addicted mother at the family's decaying villa and his unhinged father at an insane asylum.
You fucking liar.
If you're not now, then you never were.
I guess my morals have dug my own grave.
I even explained myself on the first date.
You said it was cool and that it wasn't you're thing.
Come summer you're acting so differently.
What could it be.
Could it be me?
No couldn't be.
No couldn't be.
No I shrugged it off, its just a phase.
There was a car crash, and I could not save my life.
from this car crash, and you could not save your...
See this was bothering me and this meant more.
Let's take this once further.
Your sympathy is not needed.
And I guess my morals have dug my own grave.
I even explained myself on the first date.
I'm so sorry that the tears never came.
I'm so sorry you don't feel the same, as I do.
I'm so sorry that the tears never came.
And I'm so sorry we don't feel the same.