Film

Conversation Piece

Name: Conversation Piece
Director: Luchino Visconti
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi

1974 · 121 min · ★ 7.3 · Dir. Luchino Visconti

A tangled web of bizarre mystery

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. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.