Characters & Themes
Luna (1979) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1979 · 142 mins · Italian
- Directed by
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Starring
- Jill Clayburgh, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Roberto Benigni, Peter Eyre, Fred Gwynne
While on tour in Italy, a recently widowed American opera singer turns to an illicit, incestuous bond with her fifteen‑year‑old son in a desperate attempt to pull him out of a heroin addiction, navigating the fragile, dangerous lines between maternal love and transgression.
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