Luna

Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna, released in 1979, follows Caterina Silveri, an American opera singer portrayed by Jill Clayburgh, whose husband dies suddenly. She takes her teenage son Joe, played by Matthew Barry, with her to Italy, where professional commitments require her to perform. Once there, she learns that the boy has become dependent on heroin and that he has been left largely to his own devices. Hoping to pull him away from the drug and rebuild a bond with him, she turns her full attention on him, and their relationship moves into territory far beyond that of mother and son.

The film was written by Bernardo Bertolucci with Clare Peploe and Giuseppe Bertolucci, and produced by Giovanni Bertolucci. It sits between 1900 and the documentary Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer in the director's filmography, arriving after the international attention that followed The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris. The supporting cast includes Veronica Lazăr, Renato Salvatori, Fred Gwynne as Douglas Winter and Alida Valli.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb the film holds 6.4/10 from over five thousand votes, and on TMDB it stands at 6.3/10 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 3.9/10 from thirteen reviews places it noticeably below those viewer scores. The production, a Italian-American co-production between 20th Century Fox and Fiction Cinematografica, runs 142 minutes.