Conversation Piece
“A tangled web of bizarre mystery”
DramaRomance
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
VIBE
A suffocatingly elegant, yet deeply unsettling exploration of isolation and intellectual ennui. It's a slow, simmering descent into psychological unease, draped in the opulent decay of a Roman palazzo. The dialogue crackles with a brittle, knowing wit.
melancholicintellectualunsettlingwittyelegiacslow-burnarthouseEuropean cinemapsychological dramabourgeois satirelonelinessclass conflictart and decayexistential dread
art collectorromeitalypolitical activismpaintinggigolobourgeoisieretirementaginglonelinessclass differences
