{"id":8010,"date":"2026-09-18T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:16:53","slug":"gruppo-di-famiglia-in-un-interno-aka-conversation-piece-by-luchino-visconti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/18\/gruppo-di-famiglia-in-un-interno-aka-conversation-piece-by-luchino-visconti\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Gruppo di famiglia in un interno<\/em> aka <em>Conversation Piece<\/em> by Luchino Visconti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Written for the screen but staged like a play, it works terrifically in its self-imposed limitations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Carried by superb acting and cinematography, the family portrait with its generational and social contrasts turns into a painting itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Lancaster and Berger are dubbed, but the movie can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be separated from its Italian language.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end, it\u2019s about how we will be remembered.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"important\">Addendum<\/span><br \/>\nAs for the title, the English title is the technical term for what the Italian title describes. Also, as so often, Germany wins the Most Screamingly Asinine Movie Title of the Year Award with the attention grenade <em>Gewalt und Leidenschaft<\/em>. (Clickbait must be a German invention.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conversation_Piece_(film)\"><em>Gruppo di famiglia in un interno<\/em> aka <em>Conversation Piece<\/em><\/a> by Luchino Visconti, 1974.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on September 17, 2026, in the Italian language version with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/18\/gruppo-di-famiglia-in-un-interno-aka-conversation-piece-by-luchino-visconti\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gruppo di famiglia in un interno aka Conversation Piece by Luchino Visconti\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Marvelous, and marvelously underrated.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}