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Conversation Piece

1975, Movie, NR, 120 mins

Conversation Piece: Review

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Lancaster is an American professor who lives alone in an ornate Roman house filled with 18th-century British family paintings, which are called "conversation pieces." Into this well-ordered life comes a decadent matriarch (Mangano), her nubile teenage daughter, her husband, and her sometime-lover (Berger). They rent the upstairs apartment, and thus begins a series of intrigues, sexual involvements, and eventually the death of Berger. Flashbacks of Lancaster's life reveal his relationships with his wife, Cardinale, and his mother, Sanda. It's an interior film, the main sets being Lancaster's and Mangano's apartments. The language is as ornate as the furniture, and the central theme of corruption may be just a tad esoteric for most viewers. Unlike many Italian films of the period, this one has all of the dialog in English with synchronized sound and none of the Leone-style looping of voices. The movie was directed by Visconti after his stroke, so the usual camera movement that distinguished THE DAMNED and even THE LEOPARD (truly one of the most boring movies ever made) is absent. leave a comment
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