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Luna Details

1979 Certificate TBC
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Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the .. Read more

Starring Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Rentao Salvatori
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Genres Drama

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Luna

Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe - maybe even herself - with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.

Starring Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Rentao Salvatori, Fred Gwynne, Roberto Benigni, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Studio FUTUREFILM
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 22 mins
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1979
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Director Bernardo Bertolucci's deliberately artificial tale of an opera diva, her heroin-addicted son, their almost incestuous relationship and his search for a father figure caused quite a stir on its release. In the role of the diva, Jill Clayburgh seems to be mimicking Kiri Te Kanawa as she sings her way through the Verdi back catalogue. Sadly, the other performances are wooden; as always with Bertolucci, the real star of the show is Vittorio Storaro's exquisite photography. All the while the moon, seen dramatically through a sliding roof, casts its own spell on the characters.

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    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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      Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate ...