| 4th | Top film director and cinematographer collaborations |
| La Luna | |
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| Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced by | Giovanni Bertolucci |
| Written by | Bernardo Bertolucci Franco Arcalli |
| Starring | Jill Clayburgh Matthew Barry Renato Salvatori Alida Valli |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1979 |
| Running time | 142 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
La Luna, also known as Luna, is a 1979 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh. The film concerns the troubled life of a teenage boy and his relationship with his parents.
Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh). While Joe believes that Caterina's husband, Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne), is his biological father, the truth is that he was sired by Caterina's former lover, who is now living in Italy and working as a schoolteacher. Joe is moody and rebellious and needs a strong father figure to guide him and keep him in line, but Douglas is ineffectual and emotionally weak, and when Joe witnesses the sudden death of Douglas, it sends him over the edge. In hopes of boosting her singing career, which has fallen into a rut, Caterina decides to move to Italy with her son. There, Joe falls in with a dangerous crowd and becomes addicted to heroin. Caterina hopes to lure her son back to a safer and more healthy lifestyle. Then, she becomes sexually attracted to him and wants to have sex with him. At the film's climax, she rents a room, where the couple kiss passionately – but the son stops himself.
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