Something someone said or something we read recently prompted us to add “The Conversation” to our Netflix cue. We hadn’t seen it since 1974 but we both remembered loving it. Directed by Francis Ford Copola right after his first Godfather smash, this movie plays like an obsessive art film about an obsessive, sax playing professional surveillance expert. Mundane conversation is pieced together and played over and over, analyzed while we revel in it all, geeky, even going to a convention of professional eves droppers. Electronic sounds are interwoven through the dialog until we can’t be sure if we’re hearing things or imagining them. Gene Hackman gives a killer performance and blows away co-stars and some of my favorite actors (Robert Duval, Harrison Ford and John Cazale). We kept the movie an extra night to watch it again.
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“sunday definitely”.