Browning Cinema screens another hit: Bertolucci’s ‘The Conformist’

Peter Mikulski | Monday, September 18, 2023

“Taxi Driver,” “American Psycho,” “Clockwork Orange” — men tend to lump movies like these into one post-facto category: movies that make them say “he’s literally me,” “he’s just like me ‘fr’” or some other variation on that theme. At first, Bertolucci’s “The Conformist” seems like it might fit this mold. Our protagonist is Marcello Clerici,