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The Conformist
Why this pick
Its exquisitely controlled period design and morally compromised lives under fascism echo Truffaut’s blend of theatrical beauty, private desire, and political danger.
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MOVIE1980 2h 6m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On his way to start rehearsals at the Théâtre Montmartre, where he has been hired as male lead for a new production, young Bernard Granger tries to talk to an attractive woman, who repeatedly rebuffs him. When he arrives, she turns out to be the costume designer Arlette, a lesbian. He is taken to see the icily beautiful Marion, who is both owner of the theater and leading lady. Her Jewish husband Lucas is believed to have left Paris but is in fact living in the cellars, where Marion visits him each evening to bring books and food and talk about the new production. However Marion is quite struck by Bernard, whom Lucas can just hear through a heating vent but never see. Unknown to anybody at the theater, Bernard is a member of a French Resistance group and delivers the bomb that kills a German admiral.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Catherine Deneuve
Marion Steiner
Gérard Depardieu
Bernard Granger
Alain Tasma
Marc
Renata Flores
Greta Borg
Richard Bohringer
Gestapo Officer
Heinz Bennent
Lucas Steiner
Andréa Ferréol
Arlette Guillaume
Maurice Risch
Raymond Boursier