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In Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 masterpiece, The Conformist (reportedly
due for video rerelease in 2000), the lead character contemplates
his association of sex with violence in a political polemic. Linking
sex, violence, and politics is a recurring theme in Bertolucci's
films, which often feature explicit (by Hollywood standards) depictions
of sex. He couldn't even get sex off his brain when he won the
Oscar for 1987's The Last Emperor, calling Hollywood The Big Nipple.
Bertolucci
was known in his native Italy for his poetry until 1962's Before
the Revolution established him as a tyro filmmaker with an unfailing
eye for gorgeous visuals. Nineteen seventy-six's Last Tango in
Paris, starring Marlon Brando, who engages in a graphic yet dispassionate
sexual affair, represented both a major provocation and a major
success for the filmmaker. After his Oscar, Bertolucci's
more recent films--The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, and Stealing
Beauty--have confounded moviegoers, placing (sometimes awkwardly)
Hollywood stars in nontraditional, uncommercial narratives.
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