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A minute-by-minute analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller The Conversation (1974).Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits.When it was released, The Conversation depicted the isolation and loneliness
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