--- product_id: 1413351 title: "Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno" price: "VT11679" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1413351-conversation-piece-gruppo-di-famiglia-in-un-interno store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno **Price:** VT11679 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - **How much does it cost?** VT11679 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1413351-conversation-piece-gruppo-di-famiglia-in-un-interno) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The setting for Conversation Piece is a handsome old Roman palazzo owned by a Professor (Burt Lancaster), an aging, American-born, Roman bred art historian who devotes his life to his books, his paintings, and his stereo recordings of Mozart. His life is turned upside down when his house and his intellectual life is invaded by a rich, pushy, overdressed marquesa, played by Silvana Mangano, the wife of a Fascist industrialist, and her teen-age daughter (Claudia Marsani), her young German lover (Helmut Berger) and her daughter's lover (Stefano Patrizi). These four characters are able to persuade the Professor to lease them his upstairs apartment for a year and what unfolds is a truly revealing exploration of the idle rich and the humble intellectual. What certainly is typical of Visconti here is the cinematography, as this is once again a visually stunning film. The Raro edition in 2012 marks the film's first widescreen availability on home video in America, with the original English track intact. (Lancaster, Mangano, and Berger all provide their own voices.) --Turner Classic Movies Lancaster is superb .Superb also goes for Raro Video's standard definition 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, which masterfully brings out the richness of the film's optic beauty; a considerable feat! Bonus features are a treat CineGeek heaven! --DVD Verdict Highly Recommended. Conversation Piece, Luchino Visconti's penultimate movie, is a quiet, yet surprisingly warm, portrait of an unforeseen meeting of the generations…A complicated drama,Conversation Piece has plenty to say about cultural change, age, and human connections. It's a grand work from a master cinematic storyteller, an old film that has received new life via a very modern technology. --DVD Talk Review: Defective Disc - The movie itself as well as Lancaster's acting is outstanding. However, as others have written, the pixels are scattered, impossible to watch, returned to desertcart Review: Minor Turn on Masterpiece - "Conversation Piece", Luchino Visconti's 1974 film, a film made due to the director's being ill, actually, I believe, he was recovering from a stroke, is more minor an end result than even "L'Innocente" which would come later in 1976. He died of a heart attack before "L'Innocente" was released. I reviewed "L'Innocente" as well and had a high regard for it. I liked "Conversation Piece" as well, but it did not have much of an intensity. Perhaps this film is best looked upon as the opportunity for Visconti to address his own life as the professor, as played by Burt Lancaster, is drawn upon to be somewhat autobiographical and the story for "Conversation Piece" was based upon an original short story by Enrico Medioli, who was a frequent collaborator on other scripts for Visconti and co-wrote the screenplay with Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Visconti. It's a well thought out script but not entirely successful in that the professor is merely inconvenienced by his tenants and any real effect upon his life by them is never achieved. Yes, he has them to dinner, but the tragic consequences are sort of trivialized as at dinner they can discuss their real involvement as the same old bourgeois only more dangerous because it is in disguise, as the professor explains, but the fact that the proceedings are all rather stagebound taking place in several sets no matter how intentionally its supposed to be like one of the paintings the professors analyzes, it is rather lifeless ultimately. I realize the professor's approaching death is being prophecized. And there is a hollow ring to the whole proceedings. Helmut Berger, Visconti's partner at the time, had an incredible debut in Visconti's 1969 "The Damned" and is again cast here. There is a hint that Lancaster's professor has latent homosexual feelings. But it becomes a father/son kind a bonding that barely takes effect. The only thing that survives again is the professor's well being among his possessions. It is apparently too late for him. Also starring Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani and Stefano Patrizi. Franco Mannini does the music again, as do Pasquale de Santis the cinematography and editing by Ruggero Mastroianni. Dominique Sanda and Claudia Cardinale appear in flashbacks of previous characters in the professor's life, now a part of his memories. It is too bad the Helmut Berger character could not have more invaded the sanctity of the professor's bedroom as one of these tableau. Raro Video has outdone itself with the Blu-ray for this film and provides a 16-page full color booklet with it. Technicolor. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 3.9 out of 5 stars 21 Reviews | ## Images ![Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41u7GnSf-KL.jpg) ![Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814yMn3dQoL.jpg) ![Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/711SJBuQj7L.jpg) ![Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61gSVo1ThNL.jpg) ![Conversation Piece: Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/617NihDFdPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Defective Disc *by C***5 on June 19, 2017* The movie itself as well as Lancaster's acting is outstanding. However, as others have written, the pixels are scattered, impossible to watch, returned to Amazon ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Minor Turn on Masterpiece *by V***K on November 24, 2013* "Conversation Piece", Luchino Visconti's 1974 film, a film made due to the director's being ill, actually, I believe, he was recovering from a stroke, is more minor an end result than even "L'Innocente" which would come later in 1976. He died of a heart attack before "L'Innocente" was released. I reviewed "L'Innocente" as well and had a high regard for it. I liked "Conversation Piece" as well, but it did not have much of an intensity. Perhaps this film is best looked upon as the opportunity for Visconti to address his own life as the professor, as played by Burt Lancaster, is drawn upon to be somewhat autobiographical and the story for "Conversation Piece" was based upon an original short story by Enrico Medioli, who was a frequent collaborator on other scripts for Visconti and co-wrote the screenplay with Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Visconti. It's a well thought out script but not entirely successful in that the professor is merely inconvenienced by his tenants and any real effect upon his life by them is never achieved. Yes, he has them to dinner, but the tragic consequences are sort of trivialized as at dinner they can discuss their real involvement as the same old bourgeois only more dangerous because it is in disguise, as the professor explains, but the fact that the proceedings are all rather stagebound taking place in several sets no matter how intentionally its supposed to be like one of the paintings the professors analyzes, it is rather lifeless ultimately. I realize the professor's approaching death is being prophecized. And there is a hollow ring to the whole proceedings. Helmut Berger, Visconti's partner at the time, had an incredible debut in Visconti's 1969 "The Damned" and is again cast here. There is a hint that Lancaster's professor has latent homosexual feelings. But it becomes a father/son kind a bonding that barely takes effect. The only thing that survives again is the professor's well being among his possessions. It is apparently too late for him. Also starring Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani and Stefano Patrizi. Franco Mannini does the music again, as do Pasquale de Santis the cinematography and editing by Ruggero Mastroianni. Dominique Sanda and Claudia Cardinale appear in flashbacks of previous characters in the professor's life, now a part of his memories. It is too bad the Helmut Berger character could not have more invaded the sanctity of the professor's bedroom as one of these tableau. Raro Video has outdone itself with the Blu-ray for this film and provides a 16-page full color booklet with it. Technicolor. ### ⭐ Great movie but the disc is unusable... *by I***. on April 12, 2017* Note: I have seen the film before and it is fantastic. If you are a fan of Italian films, then I highly recommend watching it. My negative review is specifically for this Blu-ray. The copy I received began skipping approximately twenty minutes in with the English audio. With the Italian audio, it will last until about the thirty minute mark before skipping to nearly the end of the film. I had requested a replacement copy since the first one I received also had this problem. However, when I tested the replacement, I made the mistake of using the Italian audio which made it past where the problems started on the English audio, making me believe that this version was fine. It wasn't until just recently when I just tried to watch the film that I realized the problems were still there. Bottom line: Great movie, but horribly produced and unusable disc. 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