Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

  • Director: Luchino Visconti
  • Writer: Enrico Medioli,Suso Cecchi D'Amico,Luchino Viscont
  • Countries of origin: Italy, France
  • Language: Italian, English
  • Release date: June 23, 1977
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Gewalt und Leidenschaft
  • "Gruppo di famiglia in un interno" is a feature film directed by Luchino Visconti di Modrone and starring Burt Lancaster and Helmut Berger .
    The film is about a retired American professor living a lonely life in a luxurious palace in Rome. He faces the vulgar Italian procession and her companions: her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, forced to rent an apartment on the upper floors of their palace. Since then, his quiet routine has been messed up by the intrigues of the tenants, and everyone's life has taken an unexpected but inevitable turn. 

    Details

    • Release date June 23, 1977
    • Filming locations Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies Rusconi Film, Gaumont International

    Movie reviews

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    • By Augustine 2022-06-13 21:18:57

      lengthy italian name

      This is a certain film by Visconti, the bourgeois family he is good at portraying. LILY KING HELMUT BURGER plays the face of a lady - the lady's actor, his mother in "The Damned/Nazi Madness". Of course, he was by no means just a face. He entered the home of the old professor Lancaster, and he inadvertently revealed his appreciation for classical music and oil painting, which made the latter admire him with admiration. He was also the leader of the hidden student movement, a dangerous element...

    • By Bennett 2022-06-13 19:03:43

      "Portrait of the Family" movie script

      "Portrait of the Family" movie script

      (Based on the novel of the same name by Camilo Poido)

      By Enrico Metiori

      Translated by Gan Liman

      Professor's Office and Study Daytime

      The magnifying glass moves over a painting, and the image becomes clearer and clearer. This is a work from the middle of the eighteenth century. The most distinctive feature of the painting is a lady sitting in the center of the family. The oil painting hangs directly above...

    • By Shyanne 2022-06-13 17:55:07

      fast dying old world

      In the old mansion, there lived an ancient and lonely eagle. The home was full of books and antiques. The walls were covered with classical oil paintings. The last nobleman, living in isolation and seclusion in a huge house, enjoys collecting famous paintings, retaining the demeanor of an old man by himself, occasionally recalling his magnificent mother and his wife who was wearing a wedding dress when they got married.

      One day, however, a noblewoman brought a group...

    • By Ayla 2022-06-13 17:33:57

      Records and impressions

      Helmut Berger plays a sick and decadent person really deep into the bone marrow, "Ludwig" "Feniz Garden", watching him feel sick, there will be a physiological reaction... The image of the old professor is very It is moving and presents something that almost everyone faces: the habits of life and the constraints it brings. Something that is out of habit makes one want to keep a distance, and once invested in it and then pull it out is a loss. While the old professor was disturbed, he had...

    • By Sydney 2022-06-13 15:35:08

      family portrait

      Complementing "Portrait of a Family", Visconti really loves to express a sense of death. The beginning is that the old professor who lives alone with only art and philosophy is disturbed by the vulgar little Bourgeois and insists on renting the second floor of the professor's house. The family is chaotic (the mistress's lover is also in a partnership with the mistress's daughter and the daughter's fiancé) and noisy. Obviously a lot of conflict is set up here, generational perceptions,...

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    • By Rubie 2023-09-07 16:09:20

      There must be a deformed shape under the appearance of attracting others. This may be a foil brought by wealth and title. Maybe it is just a matter of talking at the dinner table. Don't mind too much that it has nothing to do with love and...

    • By Bernard 2023-09-04 08:44:09

      I finally finished making up Visconti's Helmut Berg... I feel this film is very personal and subjective, like Visconti's autobiography, a summary of all aspects of life (as expected, lonely and silent people have in their heads There is a dog blood drama). However, whether it is for the director or the audience, it is always very difficult to explain life in two hours. Compared to other works, telling your own life is harder than telling any other story. And Bertrandcaster is really good, would...

    • By Malvina 2023-08-29 03:50:06

      Berg's performance was significantly better than the previous year's Ludwig, with a natural flow and a more three-dimensional plump. Once the calm is broken, it is difficult to return to a pool of stagnant water. As long as you clean yourself and be alone, how can you let anyone stay out of the torrent of the times when the mud and sand are falling. Dangerous elements who stir and provoke both sides are given more interpretation possibilities. The occasional flashbacks of Lancaster's memories,...

    • By Wayne 2023-08-27 00:28:23

      The love-hate entanglement of the rotten new bourgeoisie and the lonely old doomsday...

    • By Nyasia 2023-08-22 10:44:51

      The old aristocratic professor and the proletarian Condela spy on and admire each other across the rich family. Both are essentially world-weary, but the former has enclosed his old age in literature and art, while the latter has wrapped his youth in cynicism and radical revolution, but they both look at the fast-decaying with penetrating eyes. The world, looking at the beauty of...

    Movie plot

    In the later period of Visconti, he liked to focus on the contradictions and entanglements within the noble family, after all, he was also born into the noble family. This film falls into this category, but it is one of his least known. His old partner Lancaster plays a retired American professor who lives in a luxury apartment in Rome with a collection of paintings, and the film examines the conditions inside an aristocratic family...
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    Movie quotes

    • Marchesa Bianca Brumonti: He was too young to have learned this final nasty fact: grief is as precarious as anything else.