Conversation Piece (Blu-ray)
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Conversation Piece
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Raro Video Usa Ltd.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Helmut Berger, Burt Lancaster & Silvana Mangano | |
| Directed by | Luchino Visconti | |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni | |
| Screenwriting by | Luchino Visconti & Enrico Medioli | |
| Composition by | Franco Mannino | |
| Director of Photography: | Pasqualino De Santis |
Entertainment Reviews:
78%
82%
Visconti examines the superficial and assuming world of the Roman bourgeoisie in this 1974 chamber drma....Visconti crafts a complex sketch of a decaying society.
Film Comment
Rating: 1/5 --
As in bad plays, everyone always means exactly what he says and never has to think a second before saying it. There is no feeling for the complexity of the mental processes, for the mysterious ways in which the mind works.
New York Times
Rating: B+ --
Commences as a mannered story concerning an invasion of privacy, only to ultimately reveal itself as an open wound of feelings and political paranoia, shaped into a compelling sit by an influential, widely beloved filmmaker.
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BrianOrndorf.com
And, no, Conversation Piece is not nearly as impressive, ambitious, or powerful as The Leopard. But that doesn't make it a bad film.
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Combustible Celluloid
Conversation Piece continues to be one of Visconti's most beautiful movies: a new reflection about the social role of the aristocracy. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 2/4 --
The language is as ornate as the furniture, and the central theme of corruption may be just a tad esoteric for most viewers.
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TV Guide
Flawed and misshapen as the movie remains, it's also clearly the work of a master of the camera-albeit one in his autumn years.
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Knight at the Movies
Product Description:
An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a decadent family moves upstairs.
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