Now, if there had been more scenes like this, consistently, it might even be one of Bertolucci's masterpieces. He made the interesting decision to shoot it in English. I certainly do not dislike Hollywood movies, but I find the Asian and European movies sometimes more original and stylish. During a press conference at the New York Film Festival, he confessed that he personally just plain couldn't visualize this story with an Italian mamma and bambino. It involved the character of an opera singer played magnificently by Jill Clayburge , and her son played equally fine by Matthew Barry.
She even contacts his drug dealer to ask for sympathy for her situation. The Blu-ray The Video: Vittorio Storaro's cinematography in this film is beautiful, but mostly unassuming color-wise. Granted, it was originally to cure him of his drug habit, but she soon begins to like it, and that's when all hell seems to break loose. She does so because she shared the same sexual desire towards him. I recommend this film to older children, because during some scarier scenes, a few little girls began crying to be taken home.
When Jill Clayburgh finally tries to get her son into bed, he rejects her and slaps her around. Obviously an epic piece of whacking material for Bertolucci, but just because he wanted to screw his mother. Mother-son seductiveness is not that rare but is mostly denied and rationalized. Right before the movie started, we were given the treat of a video introduction from Bertolucci himself! It's obvious watching Luna that Bernard Bertolucci has a visual gift. It's too good for that. Perhaps only a woman can relate to just how far a mother will go to redirect her son from a deadly path. Her son, played beautifully, by unknown - before and since - Matthew Barry.
Along the way, tensions, some sexual, derail and prolong the trip. We'll never be able to make this movie -- it's about lesbians. Clayburgh inhabits the role of opera-diva Caterina Silveri with a ferocity that is astonishing. This movie just didn't give me that something. An elegant production -- not one lame or wasted moment. She throws herself into her work Clayburgh mimes long passages of operatic verse with a vein-bulging, red-faced intensity , and embraces a hedonistic lifestyle — failing to notice that her son has fallen in with a bad crowd, and is shooting heroin and burying his sadness under an awkward sexual awakening. What there is of a plot concerns Jill Clayburgh, ludicrously cast as a world famous opera singer, and Matthew Barry as her 14 year old heroin addict son and her attempts to get him off the smack by screwing his brains out.
This is one of those rare movies that's so rich in content that it deserves repeated viewing in order to fully understand all it's values and details. Did a little bird try to warn Bertolucci that this material was, to put it kindly, two bricks short of a load? They've never met, His father still lives in a rather intense relationship with his mother, the stunning Alida Valli. This is not apparent because Joe looks like a normal teenager. Tomas Milian plays the boy's real father. The film grain is well-resolved for the most part, and there are no conspicuous digital compression issues. Another point most people don't seem to recognize is that the mother doesn't recur to the incest to get close to his son. You will receive a weekly newsletter full of movie-related tidbits, articles, trailers, even the occasional streamable movie.
The personalities of the main heroes i. Bertolucci intercuts Caterina at work in an opera house with elegant gliding camera moves and Verdi on the soundtrack. A change of venue is indicated! Matthew Barry is the one who feels rather inexperienced in his role and as a consequence, he pronounces his lines virtually phonetically. Copyright 2012 by Perry S. She gets to know that Joe, her son, feels very lonely and she tries to deepen their relationship.
The opera scenes were fantastic. For culture-vultures the score features opera performed by Maria Callas and Plácido Domingo. La Luna plays both against each other as a masquerade, because what we think we are getting is not what we really are seeing. Merida only cares about getting her way, having freedom, and staying single for as long as possible. I know that the film was not well received when it came out, and I can understand why.
It needs to be said, the cinematography by is astounding, especially for a film made in 1979. But, however, this is not to be. Bertolucci further plays with this visual merging of identities by introducing a running motif where characters swap clothes with each other. Is it really so difficult to make a separate English subs track dedicated to just translating the Italian, instead of forcing viewers to hang onto their remotes and switch the existing English subs on and off when the language changes in the film? Well well well, what do we have here? Her son, played beautifully, by unknown - before and since - Matthew Barry. An elegant production -- not one lame or wasted moment. As a fine, artistic, work of cinema, Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna is certainly a work worthy of the time of exploitation film fans.
The bonus shows us Bertolucci being interviewed in different phases of his life. Tragedy strikes, and he and Mom move to Italy where he develops a heroin addiction. But on the whole this does not distract from the overall effect. Finally it ends, and she goes to one side of the room with a look like 'what the hell just happened', and he goes off to do more junk. Hon håller på att packa för att resa från hemmet i New York till Italien, där hon under sommaren skall sjunga opera. Tomas Milian plays the boy's real father.
I asked Enrico how three people could sweep away the entire surfaceof the moon. New York-based American diva Jill Clayburgh, a true celebrity, is married to it could happen! And yes, perhaps the subject will not appeal to many people, but in my opinion it still is worth giving a try. This is the first film that led along with Hanna K. The young kid in the movie begins his descent into drugs not because he misses her dad, but because he wants to numb himself and escape the sexual lust and feelings he has towards her mom. Synopsis: Teenager Joe Silveri Matthew Barry has a troubled relationship with his mother, Caterina Jill Clayburgh , a renowned opera singer, and her husband, Douglas Winter Fred Gwynne.