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Harry Caul est le meilleur pour s'introduire dans votre vie privée.

1974 • 115 min • Crime · Drama · Mystery

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Best from age 14
90
Movie Knight Score
2076 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
  • 75 Audience · 2072 · 40%

Un expert en surveillance solitaire est confronté à sa conscience après avoir soupçonné qu'un couple qu'il met sur écoute allait être assassiné. Alors qu'il creuse davantage, sa paranoïa grandit, menant à une profonde crise de moralité et d'isolement.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
3/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Discussions sur le meurtre et le crime
  • Quelques thèmes adultes et situations intenses
  • Forte emphase sur la tension psychologique

What it models well

  • Le coût du compromis moral
  • L'importance de la responsabilité individuelle
  • Les conséquences d'un pouvoir sans limites

Talk about it after

  • L'éthique de la surveillance et de la vie privée
  • La paranoïa et ses effets sur les individus
  • Le sens de l'isolement
  • Chercher la vérité versus se protéger

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Top billed cast

Director: Francis Ford Coppola • Crew: Francis Ford Coppola

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Reviewer notes

Recommended

“The Conversation” is not what you’d expect - but, it must be said, is fantastic and nearly flawless in its own right. It is more similar to Antonioni’s “Blow” than DePalma’s, and a sense of eeriness flows throughout the work, bolstered by Gene Hackman’s solemn and brooding performance. The best thing about this movie though, is the shocking third act, which I wouldn’t dare spoil here.…

Recommended

Gene Hackman is superb here as "Harry" - a super-efficient surveillance expert who discovers in the line of duty that a couple he is monitoring might well be about to be murdered. It becomes clear that the couple - Cindy Williams & Frederic Forrest are having an affair but that is just the tip of the conspiratorial iceberg in this tautly scripted/directed effort from Francis Ford Coppola.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

"The Conversation" is a tense thriller that explores how paranoia can take over all aspects of everyday life once something disturbing is discovered. Paid to eavesdrop on two people in a public place, Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman ) records the conversation and after some work produces a tape with clarity for his client.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

Unfortunately, it appears with every passing day that the great American paranoid political thrillers of the 60's and 70's, with its strongest work bookended by 'The Manchurian Candidate' (eerily foreseeing the JFK assassination) and 'All the President's Men' (placing a coda of closure on the Watergate scandal), simply haven't aged a day, and are as timely as ever in conceptualizing the palpable fear that ordinary ci…

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