{"id":4119,"date":"2023-07-14T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4119"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:03:16","slug":"the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director: Francis Ford Coppola, USA 1974, 114 mins, 12<\/p>\n

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"As a thriller alone, The Conversation<\/i> would be worth our attention. But as a thriller which also expresses our actual and collective nightmares, it absolutely demands it" Wall Street Journal<\/i>
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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.
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"the heart of The Conversation<\/i>\u2019s 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<\/i>
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Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Roger Ebert<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Slant<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Senses of Cinema<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Trailer<\/h4>