Conversation Piece (1974)
(Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
Synopsis:
An American academic lets his upper storey flat to a Marchesa and her decadent family group, bringing him uncomfortably close to a modernity he has hitherto managed to exclude from his life.
Review:
Like his film's protagonist clinging to the past, the maestro continues to make films set in an Italy long disappeared, with this and his last film, L'innocente. It is an extraordinarily static and setbound enterprise, in which little happens very quickly, but the costumes are splendid. The English title, as distinct from the less allusive Italian one, presumably refers to the painting of a family group the professor studies in his flat.
(Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
Synopsis:
An American academic lets his upper storey flat to a Marchesa and her decadent family group, bringing him uncomfortably close to a modernity he has hitherto managed to exclude from his life.
Review:
Like his film's protagonist clinging to the past, the maestro continues to make films set in an Italy long disappeared, with this and his last film, L'innocente. It is an extraordinarily static and setbound enterprise, in which little happens very quickly, but the costumes are splendid. The English title, as distinct from the less allusive Italian one, presumably refers to the painting of a family group the professor studies in his flat.
(Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
Synopsis:
An American academic lets his upper storey flat to a Marchesa and her decadent family group, bringing him uncomfortably close to a modernity he has hitherto managed to exclude from his life.
Review:
Like his film's protagonist clinging to the past, the maestro continues to make films set in an Italy long disappeared, with this and his last film, L'innocente. It is an extraordinarily static and setbound enterprise, in which little happens very quickly, but the costumes are splendid. The English title, as distinct from the less allusive Italian one, presumably refers to the painting of a family group the professor studies in his flat.