The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
124 audience votes
Key crew
- Giuseppe BertolucciScreenplay
- Clare PeploeScreenplay
- Bernardo BertolucciScreenplay
- Bernardo BertolucciDirector
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jill ClayburghCaterina Silveri
- Matthew BarryJoe Silveri
- Veronica LazărMarina
- Renato SalvatoriCommunist
- Fred GwynneDouglas Winter
- Alida ValliGiuseppe's Mother
- Elisabetta CampetiArianna
- Franco CittiMan in Bar
- Roberto BenigniUpholsterer
- Carlo VerdoneDirector of Caracalla
- Peter EyreEdward
- Mustapha BaratMustafa (as Stéphane Barat)
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Themes
parent child relationshipitalywidowheroinsondivasingerdrugsdesireincestaddict