Luna

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Luna

R,

1979,

2h 24m,

Drama

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14 Reviews

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69%

500+ Ratings

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14 Reviews

69%

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500+ Ratings

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). After Douglas commits suicide, Caterina moves to Rome to join an opera tour, taking Joe with her. However, Joe becomes increasingly unstable and develops a heroin addiction. Sensing her son is slipping away, Caterina attempts to form a closer bond with him, but the two soon develop an unusual relationship.

Bilge Ebiri

Village Voice

Apr 21, 2016

Luna seduces and repels you at the same time. It's a film about the silences and cruelties between people, but it explodes with color, music, and movement.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Apr 18, 2016

Channelling a Viscontian elegance, Bernardo Bertolucci probes the allure of bourgeois excess to its core of perverse desire-and ultimately suggests that it's made of frustrated dreams of normalcy.

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Gilbert Adair

Sight & Sound

Aug 2, 2015

In elegance, rapidity of execution and perfection of expression, Bertolucci is the cinema's Stendhal.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Nov 3, 2025

4/5

‘…coming off the back of the far more conventional narrative of 1900, La Luna was considered a folly by Bernardo Bertolucci, but it’s probably one of the very best from the maverick director…Jill Clayburgh is amazing in this tricky, difficult role…

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Jesús Fernández Santos

El Pais (Spain)

Aug 8, 2019

The script is poor and the story will only convince Bernardo Bertolucci's devout fans. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Feb 7, 2017

D

"Luna" is an indefensible film because it is built on unsupported narrative clichs that Bertolucci never resolves.

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Albus L

Apr 21, 2018

Absolute masterpiece of film making. Rest in Peace, Miss Jill Clayburge. Bertolucci tackles a taboo subject (incest) and somehow does not exploit it.

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Jill Clayburgh

Caterina Silveri

Matthew Barry

Joe Silveri

Veronica Lazar

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Renato Salvatori

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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). After Douglas commits suicide, Caterina moves to Rome to join an opera tour, taking Joe with her. However, Joe becomes increasingly unstable and develops a heroin addiction. Sensing her son is slipping away, Caterina attempts to form a closer bond with him, but the two soon develop an unusual relationship.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer: Giovanni Bertolucci
Screenwriter: Giuseppe Bertolucci, Clare Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
Production Co: Fiction Cinematografica
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Dec 6, 2016
Runtime: 2h 24m

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