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The Conversation

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Original title

The Conversation

Year

1974

Running time

113 min.

Country

United States

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Screenwriter

Francis Ford Coppola

Cast

Music

David Shire

Cinematography

Bill Butler, Haskell Wexler

Producer

American Zoetrope, The Directors Company, Coppola Co. Production. Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Genre

Mystery. Thriller | Psychological Thriller. Crime. Spy Film

Synopsis

Harry Caul is a nationally known expert on surveillance. The Director of a large company has hired him to record the conversations of two of the Director's employees. Some years previous, Harry's work directly led to the murder of three people, and now he has reason to fear that it will happen again.

Awards: 1974: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Best Movie, Sound, Original Screenplay

1974: Golden Globes: 4 Nominations, including Best Film - Drama

1974: BAFTA Awards: Best Editing and Best Soundtrack. 5 Nominations

1974: Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm - Best Movie

1974: National Board of Review: Best Film

1974: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated Best Actor (Hackman) & Best Screenplay

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Critics' reviews

"Coppola manages to turn an expert thriller into a portrayal of the conflict between ritual and responsibility without ever letting the levels of tension subside or the complicated plot get muddled"

Don Druker: Chicago Reader
"A taut, intelligent thriller (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A bleak and devastatingly brilliant film"

Time Out
"A disturbing exploration of privacy and personal responsibility in the age of technological intrusion (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Angie Errigo: Empire
"Among its virtues is a superb performance by Gene Hackman in a role that comes very close to being the uptight Watergate era's equivalent of the mad doctors in old-fashioned Vincent Price films"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"'The Conversation' perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"

Budd Wilkins: Slant
"While The Conversation may look like the quintessential paranoid thriller of its decade, it also endures as a timeless character study"

A.A. Dowd: AV Club

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The Conversation

1974

Francis Ford Coppola

7.2

(18,574)