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      Partner

      Released Feb 8, 1976 1h 50m Drama List
      91% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 60% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A young man (Pierre Clémenti) concocts an alter ego who has revolutionary ideas. Read More Read Less

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      Judith Crist New York Magazine/Vulture Clementi is delightful both as the ineffective young man and his alter ego who gets things done, achieving a mad mixture of the debonair and the Byronic, hopeless intellectualizer and sardonic observer. Oct 2, 2019 Full Review Time Out Aggressively 'new wave.' Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Nora Sayre New York Times The specific meaning of many of the scenes is obscure, but the total effect is that of youthful explosion of movie talent. Rated: 4/5 May 9, 2005 Full Review Jean Ludwigg Los Angeles Free Press One of the few good ones of the festival. Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Dick Lochte Los Angeles Free Press Though it doesn't approach the director's Last Tango in Paris in terms of general audience appeal, it displays his special eye for construction and color and his unique way of eliciting peak performances from actors. Dec 14, 2019 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Loaded with excessive theory and more or less explicit symbolism, the story ends up being too pretentious. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 24, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Boring and self indulgent Bertolucci. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member watching the film right now. Feels like I am watching a late Godard film, the ones I don't like. 5 minutes in, there is a scene with a shadow of a chandelier spinning. it qas clearly intentional and would stop and than change direction. very distracting, I have no idea what happened in the scene... interesting how he'll cover an entire scene in a wide shot... Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Well, I don't know if it would be fair for me to say that I suspect Bertolucci was trying to emulate Goddard's style with this film. I mean, he has acknowledged him as a major influence, and his style is referenced a few times throughout the the movie; so I don't know. The film has it's moments of clarity, but I tend to agree with others about the fact that Partner seems a bit uneven. Maybe it's meant to be that way, but I think the director, much like the main charecter, was trying to find his own way. I'll have to read the Dostoyevsky story and then watch this again. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member An inspiration for Fight Club, for sure, Bertolucci's film is, undoubtedly, an art film. The narrative is almost non-existent, and the plot is thin. It follows little logic and seems a compilation of visualized ideas. Of course, there's nothing wrong with this, but it's important to know that you aren't getting the dramatic punch you might from the director's other films. Seems more of a Godard picture than Bertolucci's later works. Still recommended. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view¤t=partner.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/partner.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A bizarre film about a drama teacher who, when contemplating suicide, has his exact double appear. His double pushes him to do things that he normally wouldn't do. It gets very abstact, and loses it's focus, and sort of picks it up at the end. I need to watch it again to truly get a fell for it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Great performance from the actor, but there's a very good reason this is not better known. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A young man (Pierre Clémenti) concocts an alter ego who has revolutionary ideas.
      Director
      Bernardo Bertolucci
      Screenwriter
      Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico
      Distributor
      New Yorker Films
      Production Co
      Red Film
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 8, 1976, Wide
      Runtime
      1h 50m