La Luna (film)

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La Luna

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	Italian
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"La Luna" redirects here. For the song, see La Luna (song).

La Luna (credited 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, while Caterina, hoping to lure her son back to a safer and more healthy lifestyle, tries to become closer to him, which leads to a flirtation with incest.