The Conversation

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Details:

USA | 1974 | 113 mins | Rated 12

Starring:

Hackman, John Cazale and Allen Garfield

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Synopsis

Independent electronic surveillance wizard Harry Caul leads a bleak, lonely life. His latest assignment begins to gnaw at his conscience as he delves deeper into the conversation he secretly records between a man and a woman in a public square. Demons from his professional past re-surface, and his self doubts are fuelled by the apparent danger in which his subjects seem to be caught. A murder seems imminent; but whose?

After 28 years, Coppola’s cerebral classic of paranoia and surveillance still looks outstanding, and more relevant than ever in the age of CCTV and phone-hacking.