Partner

Original title: Partner.

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Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-V... Read allBernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.

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Giacobbe I and II: The things are not as we see, neither as we feel them generally. But it is as the theater shows us. The things are receptacles of evil, which is, of irreality. The theater is one of the ways that conduct men to reality. In the beginning, things were real, the world in its childhood was real, there was a ressonance on men. To look to the world at that time was to see the infinite. Now, something is growing inside of me, that doesn't come from me but it comes from the darkness inside of me. And soon there'll be nothing. Except our obscene masks that imitate reality in between the sputum and the manure of the world.

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Featured in La sua giornata di gloria (1969)

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Splash
Written by Audrey Nohra (as Nohra)
Composed by Ennio Morricone
Performed by Peeter Boom
Courtesy of C.A.M.

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7/10

Cinema Omnivore - Partner (1968) 6.9/10

"Bertolucci's juvenilia, his Venice Golden Lion-nominated third feature PARTNER, made when he was 28, released months after the May 68 unrest, is an antisocial, subversive manifesto re-moulded out of Dostoevsky's novella "The Double" and has the Vietnamese flag prominently featured in it.

Clémenti plays Giacobbe, a young college professor, cynical, unstable, romantically frustrated, even psychotic and homicidal, meets his alter ego. Like two peas in a pod, they live together in Giacobbe's book-stacked apartment, but dissimilar to Dostoevsky's text, PARTNER doesn't overtly demarcate their disparate personalities, for most of the time, audience cannot tell which Giacobbe is present when only one of them is shown. "

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