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La Luna (1979)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

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From Time Out Film Guide

An Oedipal parable, in which Matthew Barry's young junkie falls in love with his opera-singer mother (Clayburgh). Ravishing to look at, but the movie's real curiosity is the way it fails to reverse Bertolucci's usual preoccupations: it emerges that the boy's real problem is the lack of a father and need for a family - an emphasis that Bertolucci himself vehemently denies.

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Cast & crew

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Producer: Giovanni Bertolucci

Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Laura Betti, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori, Fred Gwynne, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian, Franco Citti, Roberto Benigni full cast

Duration: 142 mins


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