Jacob is a theater instructor committed to the theories of Antonin Artaud, but he simply doesn't have the temperament to realize the "Theater of Cruelty" in life. When he meets his double (Pierre Clementi, in a dual role), the amoral embodiment of his intellectual principles, he allows the second Jacob to take over his existence--with sinister consequences. Bernardo Bertolucci's exploration of selfhood's many faces is itself both earnest and playful, dark and bizarre.

In PARTNER, Bernardo Bertolucci conflated his interests in psychoanalysis, nonlinear narrative, and Godard to create a uniquely avant-garde work unlike anything in his ouevre. The film is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel THE DOUBLE and concerns an alienated, puckish young man named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) who confronts his own double. Jacob allows his doppelganger to take over his life; the second Jacob commandeers his predecessor's theater class in the hopes of creating living theater--as a violent act of social revolution. The idea of students wreaking havoc was not an unfamiliar one in 1968, and Bertolucci refuses to take Jacob's dangerous intellectual posturing lightly. The second Jacob is a handsome killer, the first a handsome weakling who must find the courage to resist his baser self. Bertolucci matches inspired plot points with arresting images, including visual film references and the bright color schemes that would later become his trademark.

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set
Region 0
Dual Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - Italian
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Products:
Collectible Booklet - Biographies - Cast/Crew, Essay - "Nouvelle Vogue"
Disc 1: PARTNER
Widescreen - 2.35
Additional Release Material:
Outtakes
Behind the Scenes: Pierre Clementi's Screen Test
Interviews:
1. Bernardo Bertolucci - Director ("Dreams from the Other Side")
2. Roberto Perpignani - Editor ("To Edit a Partner")
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos
Galleries: Poster Art
Disc 2: LA SUA GIORNATA DI GLORIA (His Day of Glory)
Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Interviews: Edoardo Bruno - Director ("Back to Glory")
Behind the Scenes:
1. Lou Castel's Screen Test
2. Laura Troschel's Screen Test
3. Never Before Seen On-Camera Rehearsals
4. Never Before Seen On-Camera Footage of Director Edoardo Bruno

Pierre Clementi: 
Tina Aumont: Actress/"Fellini's Casa."
Stefania Sandrelli: Italian Actress/60s-70s
Giulio Cesare Castello: 
Romano Costa: 
Jed Curtis: 
Antonio Maestri: 
John Ohettplace: 
Sergio Tofano: 
Mario Venturini: 

Bernardo Bertolucci: Italian Director, LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)

Giovanni Bertolucci: 

Gianni Amico: 
Bernardo Bertolucci: Italian Director, LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)

Ennio Morricone: Italian composer, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)

Roberto Perpignani: