Synopsis
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Francis Ford Coppola’s
The Conversation hit a deep social nerve in the proto-technological
Watergate era, when political intrigue, taped conversations, and concern with surveillance loomed large in the public consciousness.
Gene Hackman delivers a brilliant performance as a pathologically private wiretapper who – despite his detached disposition – is preoccupied with a previous assignment that ended in murder. On a new case, he gradually extracts the words of a conversation from the dense background noise, yet their meaning only grows more elusive and ominous, ultimately compelling him to intervene." – Harvard Film Archive
