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    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)

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    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)

    The Conversation (1974)
    HD-DVDrip | 114 min | XviD 720x400 | 1519 kb/s | 23.97 fps | 192 kb/s AC3 | 1.36 GB + 3% recovery record
    English | Subtitles: English(CC), French and Spanish .srt | Genre: Drama/Thriller/Crime

    Slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and the threat of new technologies, examined through the private, internalized life of Harry Caul, a lonely and detached expert "bugger". The conspiracy thriller is an effective character study that exposes the emerging conscience of an estranged eavesdropper.

    Harry Caul, un especialista en vigilancia y sistemas de seguridad cuyo prestigio es reconocido por sus colegas de todo el país, recibe el encargo por parte de un magnate de investigar a su joven esposa. Deberá escuchar sus conversaciones con uno de sus empleados del que parece estar enamorada. La misión, para un experto de su categoría, resulta a primera vista inexplicable ya que la pareja no ofrece ningún interés fuera de lo corriente. Sin embargo, cuando Harry da por finalizado su trabajo, advierte que algo extraño se oculta tras la banalidad que ha estado investigando.

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)


    The timely, low-budget cinematic masterpiece of the 1970s was written, produced and released by director Francis Ford Coppola before and during the Wategate era (and between his two Godfather films) - a time of heightened concern over the violation of civil liberties. Its claustrophobic themes of the destruction of privacy, alienation, guilt, voyeurism, justified paranoia, unprincipled corporate power and personal responsibility effectively responded to growing, ominous 20th century threats of eavesdropping to personal liberties.

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)


    The haunted surveillance expert, who pursues a case -seemingly of marital infidelity- that demonstrates his rarified human emotion, discovers that he has become the victim of his own technological profession and intrigue by film's end.

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)


    After his phenomenal success with The Godfather (1972), Coppola's technically-brilliant, absorbing film was a critically-acclaimed work, but failed at the box-office. In the 1974 Oscar competition, The Conversation competed for Best Picture with Coppola's own sequel The Godfather, Part II (1974). It had a total of three award nominations (without any wins): Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Sound (Walter Murch and Arthur Rochester). Notably, there were two against-type roles of young stars from Lucas' American Graffiti (1973): the philandering role of a socialite by Cindy Williams, and the duplicitous role of a corporate executive assistant by Harrison Ford.

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)


    The marvelous sound work on the film was deserving of an Oscar for Best Sound for its effective sound-mixing of interdependent elements. The film has some similarities to director Michelangelo Antonioni's provocative Blow-Up (1966), Brian DePalma's thriller Blow Out (1981), Tony Scott's Enemy of the State (1998), and Gore Verbinski's The Ring (2002). And the bathroom scene paid homage to Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).

    Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)


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    Coppola vuelve a demostrar su clase como director y el estado de gracia en que estaba en los '70. Casi ninguna secuencia está rodada para cumplir el expediente; en todas deja algo de su maestría. La puesta en escena es de una precisión apabullante: sólo el larguísimo y lento picado de la presentación de la película ya merece la pena, aunque no se viera nada más. El "tempo" lento de Coppola y la contenida interpretación de Hackman encajan perfectamente en esta historia en la que no podemos olvidar la magnífica interpretación de los secundarios.

    La sensación que queda al final es haber visto una película extraña, apasionante por momentos y claustrofóbica en otros, pero sobre todo completamente libre, al pertencer a una década en que las películas -incluidas las comerciales- gozaban de una libertad que ahora sólo encontramos en el cine independiente y en autores que, pese a estar consagrados, siguen manteniendo su compromiso con el cine personal. Una película considerada menor entre los monumentales Padrinos y Apocalypse Now, pero que no decepcionará a los amantes del buen cine.

    Script/Guión: Francis Ford Coppola
    Music/Sonido: David Shire
    Cinematography/Fotografía: Bill Butler
    Cast/Reparto: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford