Conversation Piece
About Conversation Piece
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo.
Conversation Piece is a 1974 romance film directed by Luchino Visconti. It runs 121 minutes and was released in December 1974.
Burt Lancaster appears as Professor, Silvana Mangano as Marquess Bianca Brumonti, Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel, and Claudia Marsani as Lietta Brumonti. Written by Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti.
Shelv files it under loneliness, painting, class differences, and retirement.
The Great Beauty, Hudson Hawk, and Pierrot le Fou make useful companions to Conversation Piece, all filed under aging and bourgeoisie. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 172 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.