La Luna (film)

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name = La Luna


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director = Bernardo Bertolucci
producer = Giovanni Bertolucci
writer = Bernardo Bertolucci
Franco Arcalli
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starring = Jill Clayburgh
Matthew Barry
Renato Salvatori
Alida Valli
music = Ennio Morricone
cinematography = Vittorio Storaro
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distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 1979
runtime = 142 minutes
country = Italy
language = English
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imdb_id = 0079495:"La Luna" redirects here. For the song, see La Luna (song).""La Luna" (credited Luna) is a 1979 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh.

The film concerns the troubled life of a teenage boy and his relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh). While Joe believes that Caterina's husband, Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne), is his biological father, the truth is that he was sired by Caterina's former lover, who is now living in Italy and working as a schoolteacher. Joe is moody and rebellious and needs a strong father figure to guide him and keep him in line, but Douglas is ineffectual and emotionally weak, and when Joe witnesses the sudden death of Douglas, it sends him over the edge. In hopes of boosting her singing career, which has fallen into a rut, Caterina decides to move to Italy with her son. There, Joe falls in with a dangerous crowd and becomes addicted to heroin, while Caterina, hoping to lure her son back to a safer and more healthy lifestyle, tries to become closer to him, which leads to a flirtation with incest.

Cast

*Jill Clayburgh - Caterina Silveri
*Matthew Barry - Joe Silveri
*Veronica Lazar - Marina
*Renato Salvatori - Communist
*Fred Gwynne - Douglas Winter
*Alida Valli - Giuseppe's Mother
*Elisabetta Campeti - Arianna
*Franco Citti - Man in Bar
*Roberto Benigni - Upholsterer
*Carlo Verdone - Director of Caracalla
*Peter Eyre - Edward
*Stéphane Barat - Mustafa
*Pippo Campanini - Innkeeper
*Rodolfo Lodi - Maestro Giancarlo Calo
*Shara Di Nepi - Concetta
*Iole Silvani - Wardrobe Mistress
*Francesco Mei - Barman
*Ronaldo Bonacchi - Barmen
*Mimmo Poli - Piano Mover
*Massimiliano Filoni - Piano Mover
*Alessio - Caracalla Conductor
*Tomas Milian - Giuseppe

Links

* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0079495/ IMDb]