"Parla in codice! Harry Caul ti sta ascoltando."
La conversazione
Specialista in intercettazioni, che ha sempre vissuto immerso nel lavoro, scopre di avere una coscienza, di essere responsabile di quello che fa, di essere prima complice e poi vittima. Palma d'oro a Cannes e designato agli Oscar (film, regia), è un thriller che anticipa i tempi (Watergate) e le mode, rimanda al cinema di Antonioni (fotografia funzionale di Bill Butler), ma anche agli incubi allucinati di un Kafka tecnologicamente aggiornato. Uno dei migliori film USA degli anni '70 con un G. Hackman perfetto come antieroe dell'era elettronica. Apparizione non accreditata di Robert Duvall.
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Vedi tutto su TMDBUnfortunately, it appears with every passing day that the great American paranoid political thrillers of the 60's and 70's, with its strongest work bookended by 'The Manchurian Candidate' (eerily foreseeing the JFK assassination) and 'All the President's Men' (placing a coda of closure on the Watergate scandal), simply haven't aged a day, and are as timely as ever in conceptualizing the palpable f…
"The Conversation" is a tense thriller that explores how paranoia can take over all aspects of everyday life once something disturbing is discovered. Paid to eavesdrop on two people in a public place, Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman ) records the conversation and after some work produces a tape with clarity for his client. However Harry is riddled with guilt from a previous job that led to the peopl…
Gene Hackman is superb here as "Harry" - a super-efficient surveillance expert who discovers in the line of duty that a couple he is monitoring might well be about to be murdered. It becomes clear that the couple - Cindy Williams & Frederic Forrest are having an affair but that is just the tip of the conspiratorial iceberg in this tautly scripted/directed effort from Francis Ford Coppola. It's a s…
“The Conversation” is not what you’d expect - but, it must be said, is fantastic and nearly flawless in its own right. It is more similar to Antonioni’s “Blow” than DePalma’s, and a sense of eeriness flows throughout the work, bolstered by Gene Hackman’s solemn and brooding performance. The best thing about this movie though, is the shocking third act, which I wouldn’t dare spoil here. …