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Aka Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno. A retired American professor lives in an ornate Roman house. His well-ordered life is disrupted by the entrance of a decadent matriach and nubile daughter who rent the upstairs apartment. Their intrigues provoke flashbacks in his own life and he is forced to face his own latent homosexuality and approaching death.

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Director	Luchino Visconti
Starring	Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger
Genre	World Cinema
Country	Italy	Language	ENGLISH	Year	1974

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Certificate	18	Length	121 mins	Label	ARROW
Cat No	FCD132	Format	DVD	Colour
Region	0	Aspect	16:9 Anamorphic

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Review by Paul Scott on 26th August 2004

Uneven and curiously studio-bound, yet utterly fascinating. The aristocratic salons of an old Roman palazzo are exquisitely framed in cinemascope as Visconti acknowledges the limitations of aesthetic pleasure. Touching solitude, memory and death it makes for a subtle and deeply personal exploration of generations. Accordingly, Burt Lancaster gives an elegaic performance as the ageing connoisseur while Helmut Berger is an intriguing, compelling presence within a languid and ultimately rather moving narrative.

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