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Conversation (1974)
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Bleak and mysterious, Francis Ford Coppola's taut masterpiece about responsibility, privacy, alienation, and paranoia is part Hitchcockian thriller, part grim character study. Hackman plays Harry Caul, a guarded wreck of a human being whose profession as the world's greatest surveillance expert has detached him from everyday reality. Though a topnotch voyeur, amorally earning his living by bugging other people's conversations and selling the tapes to clients, Caul keeps his own life fiercely private. He has no friends, just associates in the wiretapping business, all of whom he distrusts; his love life consists of apathetic sex with what...
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| Conversation Movie Review by Jarrod (10/10/2008) |
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Spoilers Ahead
'The Conversation' is one of Francis Ford Coppola's finest achievements as a director, and is part of a remarkable quartet of films he made in the 1970s, starting with The Godfather and ending with Apocalypse Now. This movie ironically competed with The Godfather, Part II for Best Picture honors at the...
(complete Conversation review by Jarrod)
This Francis Ford Coppola film about paranoia and corporate control only gets more relevant to the poltical landscape as the years go on. Gene Hackman's Harry Caul has been hired to tape an impossible-to-tape conversation for a shady figure. One the great feats of sound editing, this film has only recently become known...
(complete Conversation review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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