Conversation Piece
Burt Lancaster is a retired American professor who lives alone in an ornate Roman house. Into this well-ordered life comes a decadent matriarch (Silvana Mangano), her nubile teenage daughter, her husband, and her sometime-lover (Helmut Berger). They rent the upstairs apartment, and thus begins a series of intrigues, sexual involvements which provoke flashbacks of the professor's life that reveal his relationships with his wife (Claudia Cardinale), and his mother (Dominique Sanda). The Professor exists between these two realities and rushes from one to the other with torment and hesitation...
Year: 1974
Genre: Art House Cinema
Country: Italy
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger
Duration: 97 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains offensive language.
7.6/10
Location in store: Art House Cinema
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