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Director: Francis Ford Coppola, USA 1974, 114 mins, 12
"As a thriller alone, The Conversation would be worth our attention. But as a thriller which also expresses our actual and collective nightmares, it absolutely demands it" Wall Street Journal
Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a paranoid and secretive surveillance expert hears something disturbing in the recordings of a young couple he is spying on. As the film progresses he is tormented by memories of a previous case, and becomes more and more convinced that a murder might happen and faces a moral dilemma.
"the heart of The Conversation’s appeal, then and now, is the way it combines an exceptional character study, a thriller plot and an ability to superbly convey the unease of a society where blanket surveillance is getting to be the norm" Los Angeles Times
