Conversation, The A classic of unostentatious cinema from Coppola. In one of his finest roles, Gene Hackman portrays a surveillance expert whose work begins to challenge his morality - and sanity
Between making the epic The Godfather and its sequel, Francis Ford Coppola made this thriller about a reclusive surveillance expert, Harry Caul (Hackman).
Opening with an understated aerial zoom down into a busy New York park, the lunchtime chatter fizzing and buzzing into audibility over Caul's equipment, Coppola signals his intent to make a small, expertly crafted film. Self-consciously stripped of the excesses that he would lavish upon Apocalypse Now, The Conversat...
Best film of the 70s?
Long before he started making films about Robin Williams as a boy-child, Francis Ford Coppola directed intelligent works like The Conversation. Ostensibly about professional eavesdropper Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) who is hired to tape a conversation between two apparent innocents, Coppola fashions an extraordinary work that fuses urban loneliness and a deep suspicion of corporate America. Clearly influenced by Blow Up, in which a bystander is similarly drawn into a murky, conspiratorial world, this 1974 classic initially plays as documentary before the thriller element assumes prominence. Yet this is a thriller in which no gun is fired and no flashy pyrotechnics used to generate suspense. ...
Between making the epic The Godfather and its sequel, Francis Ford Coppola made this thriller about a reclusive surveillance expert, Harry Caul (Gene Hackman).
Opening with an understated aerial zoom down into a busy New York park, the lunchtime chatter fizzing and buzzing into audibility over Caul's equipment, Coppola signals his intent to make a small, expertly crafted film. Self-consciously stripped of the excesses that he would lavish upon Apocalypse Now, The Conversation is the director's minor masterpiece, distinguished by a career-best performance from Gene Hackman.
The plot unspools with Caul's painstaking piecing together of a conver...
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