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Luna (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La luna
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
138 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Bernardo Bertolucci

Written By:
Franco Arcalli (story) &
Bernardo Bertolucci (story)

Actors:
Jill Clayburgh ..... Caterina Silveri
Matthew Barry ..... Joe Silveri
Veronica Lazar ..... Marina
Renato Salvatori ..... Communist
Fred Gwynne ..... Douglas Winter
Alida Valli ..... Giuseppe's Mother
Elisabetta Campeti ..... Arianna
Franco Citti ..... Man in Bar
Roberto Benigni ..... Upholsterer
Carlo Verdone ..... Director of Caracalla
Peter Eyre ..... Edward
Stéphane Barat ..... Mustafa
Pippo Campanini ..... Innkeeper
Rodolfo Lodi ..... Maestro Giancarlo Calo
Shara Di Nepi ..... Concetta

Synopsis:

Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is his biological father, the truth is that he was sired by Caterina's former lover, who is now living in Italy and working as a schoolteacher. Joe is moody and rebellious and needs a strong father figure to guide him and keep him in line. But Douglas is ineffectual and emotionally weak, and when Joe witnesses Douglas committing suicide, it sends the young man over the edge. In hopes of boosting her singing career, which has fallen into a rut, Caterina decides to move to Italy, with Joe in tow; Joe falls in with a dangerous crowd and becomes addicted to heroin, while Caterina, hoping to lure her son back to a safer and more healthy lifestyle, tries to become closer to him, which leads to a flirtation with inccest. Jill Clayburgh's performance earned her a 1980 Golden Globe nomination.

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 Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe - maybe even herself - with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.

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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