
Bernardo Bertolucci
Partner
Bernardo Bertolucci was obviously influenced by the films of Jean-Luc Godard and the worldwide political upheavals of 1968 while assembling his feature-film Partner. This unorthodox adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double studiously avoids traditional linear storytelling and exposition techniques. Pierre Clementi stars as a repressed young student who concocts a radical alter ego for himself. As the student's two faces argue polemics, Bertolucci uses the opportunity to take freewheeling critical potshots at all forms of political ideology.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Ennio Morricone
Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano
Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico
Ugo Piccone
Roberto Perpignani
Giovanni Bertolucci
Red Film
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Italian, French
Italy
1968