Conversation Piece (1974) 122 min
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Silvana Mangano, Burt Lancaster
The life of an aging intellectual is upended when he rents an apartment in his Roman palazzo to a matron, her amoral gigolo and hedonistic children.
The elderly Professor (Burt Lancaster) is a quiet man, content to live surrounded by his paintings and memories of a lost marriage in his opulent Palazzo. Enter Marquise Bianca Brumonti (Silvana Mangano) who insists on renting an apartment for her lover, and the modern world, with all its destructiveness, loudness, youth and complexities soon descends. Mangano is wonderful as the crass, still beautiful and unfaithful trophy wife who upends a quiet man’s self-imposed exile from life, and Lancaster delivers a poignant performance as a man who awakens, unwillingly, to the realities of time and change.
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Directed by Luchino Visconti
Silvana Mangano, Burt Lancaster
The life of an aging intellectual is upended when he rents an apartment in his Roman palazzo to a matron, her amoral gigolo and hedonistic children.
The elderly Professor (Burt Lancaster) is a quiet man, content to live surrounded by his paintings and memories of a lost marriage in his opulent Palazzo. Enter Marquise Bianca Brumonti (Silvana Mangano) who insists on renting an apartment for her lover, and the modern world, with all its destructiveness, loudness, youth and complexities soon descends. Mangano is wonderful as the crass, still beautiful and unfaithful trophy wife who upends a quiet man’s self-imposed exile from life, and Lancaster delivers a poignant performance as a man who awakens, unwillingly, to the realities of time and change.
Conversation Piece (1974) 122 min
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Silvana Mangano, Burt Lancaster
The life of an aging intellectual is upended when he rents an apartment in his Roman palazzo to a matron, her amoral gigolo and hedonistic children.
The elderly Professor (Burt Lancaster) is a quiet man, content to live surrounded by his paintings and memories of a lost marriage in his opulent Palazzo. Enter Marquise Bianca Brumonti (Silvana Mangano) who insists on renting an apartment for her lover, and the modern world, with all its destructiveness, loudness, youth and complexities soon descends. Mangano is wonderful as the crass, still beautiful and unfaithful trophy wife who upends a quiet man’s self-imposed exile from life, and Lancaster delivers a poignant performance as a man who awakens, unwillingly, to the realities of time and change.
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Directed by Luchino Visconti
Silvana Mangano, Burt Lancaster
The life of an aging intellectual is upended when he rents an apartment in his Roman palazzo to a matron, her amoral gigolo and hedonistic children.
The elderly Professor (Burt Lancaster) is a quiet man, content to live surrounded by his paintings and memories of a lost marriage in his opulent Palazzo. Enter Marquise Bianca Brumonti (Silvana Mangano) who insists on renting an apartment for her lover, and the modern world, with all its destructiveness, loudness, youth and complexities soon descends. Mangano is wonderful as the crass, still beautiful and unfaithful trophy wife who upends a quiet man’s self-imposed exile from life, and Lancaster delivers a poignant performance as a man who awakens, unwillingly, to the realities of time and change.
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