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Conversation Piece

1974 · 121 min

A slow, melancholy chamber piece that lingers on aging, art, and the ache of late connection.

Tagline: A tangled web of bizarre mystery
Overview: A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: aging
loneliness
class
identity
death
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Written by: Enrico Medioli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Luchino Visconti
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi, Elvira Cortese, Philippe Hersent, Guy Tréjan
Music: Franco Mannino
Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis
Runtime: 121 min
Country: France, Italy
Languages: Italian

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