Monday, August 23, 2010

The Conversation, 1974 (Grade B)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Awards: This film in on AFI's Top 100 Movie List. It was nominated for but didn't win Adademy Awards, Bafta Awards, Golden Globe Awards.
Cast: Gene Hackman; John Cazale; Allen Garfieldl Frederic Forrest; Cindy WIlliams; Harrison Ford; Teri Garr; Michael Higgins; Elizabeth MacRae; Mark Wheeler; Robert Duvall; Robert Shields; Phoebe Alexander

 

sez says:   Are we responsible for the product of our labor--after we have done our task, does it matter who does what with it next?   That is the question that Hackman's character struggles with.  He knows that in the past someone was killed because of the information he gathered and handed over to the party who paid him to get the information, Is it about to happen again? Woven into that question is the "what is happening here' mystery of the movie.  The two elements work very well.  And the grey plastic rain coat that Hackman seems to never take off--is a winner (Grade B)