THE CONVERSATION Film Screening (ENG subs)
Saturday 27. December at 18:00 - 19:55
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola | USA | 1974 | 1h53m | Presented in the original English with English subtitles.
THE CONVERSATION is A deeply unsettling thriller about surveillance and moral responsibility. Unlike conventional paranoia films, it avoids spectacle entirely. Its tension comes from listening, repetition, and interpretation.
Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who prides himself on technical perfection and emotional distance. He records conversations for clients and delivers the material without asking questions. Privacy matters deeply to him, even as his work violates it daily.
When hired to secretly record a couple in a public square, Harry believes it is routine. As he replays fragments of their conversation, small shifts in emphasis change the meaning entirely. A sentence sounds different depending on where the stress falls. Interpretation becomes dangerous.
Coppola structures the film around this uncertainty. Scenes repeat. Audio returns. The same words carry new implications. Harry’s isolation deepens as his belief in neutrality collapses.
Made during the Watergate era, the film reflects widespread anxiety about technology, power, and accountability - the very same fears and themes cinema continues to tackle today. Its relevance has only sharpened with time. The film asks what responsibility we bear for the information we collect and whether ignorance can ever be a defense.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi.
How to find FOMO: Enter via Atoneli St above Carrefour. Take the stairs immediately on your left behind the jewellery stand. The cinema entrance is one flight up in the stairwell.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
