La Luna

★★★★★

Original title: Luna · Turkish title: Ay

“Between a mother and son. Between the delicate boundaries of love.”

1979 · 2 h 22 min

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Drama

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Cast

Jill Clayburgh Matthew Barry Laura Betti

Credits

Written by: Franco Arcalli

Plot

An opera singer and her son in Italy.

Sinekatalog’s take

Bernardo Bertolucci's melodrama follows an opera singer and her troubled son, with a controversial incestuous undercurrent. Lavish and operatic, with Jill Clayburgh, it is an uneven, extravagant and divisive late-1970s film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.3 / 10 (6,039 votes)
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