The Conversation
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Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco-based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, one who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment. He is an intensely private and solitary man in both his personal and professional life, which especially irks Stan, his busi... (Full plot summary below)

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Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. He is a San Francisco-based electronic surveillance expert who owns and operates his own small surveillance business. He is renowned within the profession as being the best, one who designs and constructs his own surveillance equipment. He is an intensely private and solitary man in both his personal and professional life, which especially irks Stan, his business associate who often feels shut out of what is happening with their work. This privacy, which includes not letting anyone into his apartment and always telephoning his clients from pay phones is, in part, intended to control what happens around him. His and Stan's latest job (a difficult one) is to record the private discussion of a young couple meeting in crowded and noisy Union Square. The arrangement with his client, known only to him as "the director", is to provide the audio recording of the discussion and photographs of the couple directly to him alone in return for payment. Based on circumstances with the director's assistant, Martin Stett, and what Harry ultimately hears on the recording, Harry believes that the lives of the young couple are in jeopardy. Harry used to be detached from what he recorded, but is now concerned ever since the deaths of three people that were the direct result of a previous audio recording he made for another job. Harry not only has to decide if he will turn the recording over to the director, but also if he will try and save the couple's lives using information from the recording. As Harry goes on a quest to find out what exactly is happening on this case, he finds himself in the middle of his worst nightmare.

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Film Freak Central - 10/10 by Walter ChawThe Conversation is for me the masterpiece of American cinema.
New Yorker - 10/10 by Michael SragowThanks to Walter Murch’s keen, intuitive sound montage and Hackman’s clammy, subtle performance, the movie captures a more elusive and universal fear—that of losing the power to respond, emotionally and morally, to the evidence of one’s own senses.
Eye for Film - 10/10 by Amber WilkinsonCoppola may have made films of a more spectacular nature but here he makes a virtue of a introversion - so that the film's horror moment is all the more vibrantly terrible when set in relief.
Netflix - 10/10 by James RocchiDirector Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid classic is brilliantly revived on DVD.
New York Magazine (Vulture) - 10/10 by Judith CristWhat Coppola achieved is a psychodrama about the dangers of being locked in your own private world, of slipping on noise-canceling headphones of any variety. Listening and hearing are not the same thing. Confusing one for the other can have dire consequences.
BBC.com - 10/10 by Nick HilditchThe Conversation is an intricate and unsettlingly subtle character study, with a very strong performance from Hackman.
Guardian - 10/10 by Peter BradshawThis is a severe and gripping masterpiece.
Q Network Film Desk - 10/10 by James KendrickAs The Conversation slowly weaves its absorbing and intricate web, it works its way under your skin, drawing you into its sense of paranoia, until you are sharing the same feelings as the protagonist.
Empire Magazine - 10/10 by Ian FreerA fantastic reminder of why 70s Hollywood is so often the benchmark for modern moviedom to aspire to.
Empire - 10/10 by Angie ErrigoAnother great, landmark American film of the '70s.

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