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The Conversation

1974

Francis Ford Coppola

Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams ...

7.2

18,595

Mystery. Thriller Harry Caul is a nationally known expert on surveillance. The Director of a large company has hired him to record the conversations of two of the Director's employees. Some years previous, Harry's work directly led to the murder of three people, and now he has reason to fear that it will happen again.

	Author	Review
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"Coppola manages to turn an expert thriller into a portrayal of the conflict between ritual and responsibility without ever letting the levels of tension subside or the complicated plot get muddled"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A taut, intelligent thriller (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A bleak and devastatingly brilliant film"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"A disturbing exploration of privacy and personal responsibility in the age of technological intrusion (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Among its virtues is a superb performance by Gene Hackman in a role that comes very close to being the uptight Watergate era's equivalent of the mad doctors in old-fashioned Vincent Price films"	POS
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"'The Conversation' perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"While The Conversation may look like the quintessential paranoid thriller of its decade, it also endures as a timeless character study"	POS

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