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English. Budget. $5 million [1] La Luna (released in the United States as Luna) is a 1979 drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay co-written with his brother Giuseppe and wife Clare Peploe. The film concerns the troubled life of a teenage boy and his relationship with his parents, including an incestuous relationship with ...
Luna: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori. While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
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Jun 20, 2012 · Bernardo Bertolucci – La Luna (1979) La Luna is a spectacle-sized melodrama filled with a variety of themes – plots and subplots that merge asymmetrically into a melodramatic mold. The saga is of Jill Clayburgh as Yank lyric star afflicted with professional neuroses, fading pipes, a son on drugs and a close-to-incest mother-son development.
Teenager Joe Silveri (Matthew Barry) has a troubled relationship with his mother, Caterina (Jill Clayburgh), a renowned opera singer, and her husband, Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne). After Douglas ...
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A rare 35mm revival screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1979 controversial drama LA LUNA, organized and hosted by film journalist and programmer David Savage and co-sponsored by Iconic Linx, brought near-sellout crowds to Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan on Monday, April 25th 2016, including the family of the late Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010) star of the film.
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- David Savage
Luna (1979) is an intense drama showing just how far a mother will go to save her progeny from heroin addiction. In case, incest is utilized. Only Bertolucci could craft a story that is equal parts gut wrenching and equal parts beauty (opera) and weave in a story of a child searching desperately for his father and his place in the world. We ...
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La luna is a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci with Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori .... Year: 1979. Original title: La luna. Synopsis: Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around ...