La Luna (1979)
Country: IT
Technical: col 142m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
An American opera singer on tour in Italy finds her relationship with her heroin-addicted son grows in intimacy as she strives to free him from dependency on the drug.
Review:
Prolix, scandal-courting drama from the director of Last Tango in Paris, apparently undecided between a desire to shock and a form of romantic optimism. Skilful technique are present in full measure, whether in the use of opera music to adumbrate, ironically or emotionally, the action, or in the flamboyant intertextual reference: Fred Gwynne removes a lump of chewing-gum from under a balcony rail, as if where Brando had left it, remarking, 'Jesus Christ, there's gum all over the place'. (Knowing it may be, but it is also an omen for Gwynne's character's death - most regrettable - moments later.) An uncharitable observer might wash his hands of the whole unhappy lot and put it all down to illegitimacy and a neglected upbringing, but Bertolucci does not judge.
Country: IT
Technical: col 142m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
An American opera singer on tour in Italy finds her relationship with her heroin-addicted son grows in intimacy as she strives to free him from dependency on the drug.
Review:
Prolix, scandal-courting drama from the director of Last Tango in Paris, apparently undecided between a desire to shock and a form of romantic optimism. Skilful technique are present in full measure, whether in the use of opera music to adumbrate, ironically or emotionally, the action, or in the flamboyant intertextual reference: Fred Gwynne removes a lump of chewing-gum from under a balcony rail, as if where Brando had left it, remarking, 'Jesus Christ, there's gum all over the place'. (Knowing it may be, but it is also an omen for Gwynne's character's death - most regrettable - moments later.) An uncharitable observer might wash his hands of the whole unhappy lot and put it all down to illegitimacy and a neglected upbringing, but Bertolucci does not judge.
Country: IT
Technical: col 142m
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
An American opera singer on tour in Italy finds her relationship with her heroin-addicted son grows in intimacy as she strives to free him from dependency on the drug.
Review:
Prolix, scandal-courting drama from the director of Last Tango in Paris, apparently undecided between a desire to shock and a form of romantic optimism. Skilful technique are present in full measure, whether in the use of opera music to adumbrate, ironically or emotionally, the action, or in the flamboyant intertextual reference: Fred Gwynne removes a lump of chewing-gum from under a balcony rail, as if where Brando had left it, remarking, 'Jesus Christ, there's gum all over the place'. (Knowing it may be, but it is also an omen for Gwynne's character's death - most regrettable - moments later.) An uncharitable observer might wash his hands of the whole unhappy lot and put it all down to illegitimacy and a neglected upbringing, but Bertolucci does not judge.