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The Damned
Why this pick
Like The Conformist, it turns fascist-era respectability into a lavishly composed nightmare of compromise, erotic power and moral decay.
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MOVIE1970 1h 53m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A razor-sharp Italian study of authoritarian psychology, pairing stylised control with a protagonist whose need for power becomes self-exposure.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Why this pick
Its elegant, fading world and encroaching Fascist menace echo Bertolucci’s sense that private longing can be quietly deformed by history.
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The Night Porter
Why this pick
For the same chilly fascination with desire, memory and Fascism’s lingering psychological grip, rendered in a meticulously uneasy European atmosphere.
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The Spider's Stratagem
Why this pick
Bertolucci again builds a seductive political labyrinth: a young man enters a sun-drenched town where identity, betrayal and inherited mythology refuse to settle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with Marcello Clerici in Paris finalizing preparations to assassinate his former college professor, Luca Quadri. It frequently returns to the interior of a car driven by Manganiello as the two of them pursue the professor and his wife.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Stefania Sandrelli
Giulia
Enzo Tarascio
Professor Quadri
Dominique Sanda
Anna Quadri