Luna
Original Title
La Luna- Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
- Writer: Giuseppe Bertolucci; Bernardo Bertolucci; Clare Peploe; Franco Arcalli
- Producer: Giovanni Bertolucci
CGiii Comment
A well-known American soprano, Caterina Silveri, after the death of her husband and manager Douglas Winter, leaves the United States and settles up in Rome with her son Joe. Suddenly from the sober atmospheres of their American life in Brooklyn they are thrown to a sensual, drenched-in-sun Rome. By night the city is lit by a moon that gives visions, unveils and hides, reflects wishes, shapes and perverts them; until it reveals itself to be a guide that shows conflicts and settles them by her fatal attraction. The moon is a game-of-mirrors movie on losing oneself and find it again, on not being capable to have a place in the world without a guide, on how individual paths are necessarily intertwined despite our superficial blindness, despite the habit of hiding behind what we accept as true.
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Cast & Characters
Jill Clayburgh as Caterina Silveri;
Matthew Barry as Joe Silveri;
Veronica Lazar as Marina;
Renato Salvatori as Communist;
Fred Gwynne as Douglas Winter;
Alida Valli as Giuseppe's Mother;
Elisabetta Campeti as Arianna;
Franco Citti as Man in Bar;
Roberto Benigni as Upholsterer;
Carlo Verdone as Director of Caracalla;
Peter Eyre as Edward;
Mustapha Barat as Mustafa;
Pippo Campanini as Innkeeper;
Rodolfo Lodi as Maestro Giancarlo Calo;
Sara Di Nepi as Concetta;
Jole Silvani as Wardrobe Mistress;
Francesco Mei as Barman;
Ronaldo Bonacchi as Barmen;
Mimmo Poli as Piano Mover;
Massimiliano Filoni as Piano Mover