The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, 113 min

“The ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neo-noir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track and secretly record a young couple. When he uncovers a violent murder plot during the course of his investigation, Harry finds himself drawn into a terrifying web of suspicion and steadily mounting dread. Masterfully wringing tension from its intricate sound design, The Conversation is a tour de force of psychological suspense as well as a hauntingly prescient vision of life in an age of mass surveillance.” – Janus Films

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