In the later period of Visconti, he liked to focus on the contradictions and entanglements within the noble family, after all, he was also born into the noble family. This film falls into this category, but it is one of his least known. His old partner Lancaster plays a retired American professor who lives in a luxury apartment in Rome with a collection of paintings, and the film examines the conditions inside an aristocratic family through his perspective. The family moved into the artist's upstairs, and the family is full of unknown inside stories such as depravity, hatred, jealousy, etc. The old professor had irreconcilable contradictions with them, and also plunged himself into madness and chaos.
Conversation Piece movie plot
2022-06-13 19:20
Extended Reading
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Marchesa Bianca Brumonti: He was too young to have learned this final nasty fact: grief is as precarious as anything else.