Win a Double Pass to the Closing Night of the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival! (Sydney & Melbourne)
Score tickets to catch Bernardo Bertolucci’s remastered classic ‘The Conformist’ on the big screen, and enjoy a pre-screening beverage or two!
Win a Double Pass to the Closing Night of the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival! (Sydney & Melbourne)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 Oscar nominated masterpiece will close the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival in truly visually intoxicating art deco style – and we have tickets to give away to the Melbourne and Sydney closing nights.
A political thriller set in Mussolini’s Italy, The Conformist is an incisive portrait of the self-loathing, repressed Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is drawn to Fascism. Aching to fit in in 1938 Rome, he is despatched to Paris to murder his former, anti-fascist college professor. A furious energy is contained in the film’s truly unforgettable scenes: a wedding night on a train, Marcello’s wife Stefania Sandrelli and her lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango, a limousine ambushed in a wintry forest. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s lens transforms every street and room into a catalytic baroqueness and decadence, resulting in a bludgeoning indictment and critique of politics and class.
This print is the result of a new digital restoration from original source materials, supervised by Storaro himself and approved by Bertolucci.
For your chance to win tickets to the closing night of the Italian Film Fest, simply let us know your favourite Bertolucci film, and why it tops the list. Email your answer to
filmink@filmink.com.au and please include your full name, and which city screening you would like to attend. The full details are below.
MELBOURNE: THE ASTOR THEATRE
Sunday 11th October, 6.30pm reception includes Mitchelton Wines, Aperol cocktails and Connoisseur Gourmet Ice Cream
SYDNEY: CHAUVEL CINEMA
Sunday 11 October, 6.00pm reception includes Mitchelton Wines and Connoisseur Gourmet Ice Cream
The Italian Film Festival is currently running in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth and Brisbane, and will play in Hobart from October 15.
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