The Conformist

LACMA is showing a 40th Anniversary Screening of the film The Conformist.

Forty years ago this month, The Conformist, a new film by the young Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival where critics raved about the lyricism of its direction and the beauty of its images. Catapulted to international art house fame by Before the Revolution, his first feature set in the drizzly black-and-white provinces, Bertolucci waited until his fourth film to unleash the full range of his stylistic mastery-the elaborate tracking shots, the opulent color photography, the odd, surrealistic visual incongruities. The result was a highly original and influential film that applies golden-age studio craftsmanship and movie glamour to a dark tale of moral betrayal set against a sharply observed backdrop of political corruption and brutality.

Tickets are $10 general admission, $7 museum members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID. Buy tickets at the museum box office (tel. 323 857-6010) or online, and many shows do sell out. Your ticket also includes entrance to the museum galleries!