Senso
Overview
An extravagantly romantic story about the tempestuous affair between an Italian countess and a dashing Austrian officer. When war and revolution break out, the contessa becomes torn between her fervent patriotic commitment and her obsessive love for one of the enemy.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Luchino Visconti - Director
Alida Valli
Farley Granger
Massimo Girotti
Heinz Moog
Rina Morelli
Marianna Leibl
Marcella Mariani
Christian Marquand
Tonio Selwart
Sergio Fantoni
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 715515068116
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: Not Rated
- Release Date: February 2011
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"...SENSO is a photographic dream....A contender for the most beautiful color film ever..." - 06/09/1989 USA Today, p.3D
4 stars out of 5 -- "Gorgeously upholstered by flashing, decadent passions and over-the-top operatics....[A] full colour, full-tilt spectacle..." - 07/01/2007 Total Film, p.132
"[W]ith Visconti turning to music and voiceover to crank up the emotions. He also makes highly inventive use of the Venetian settings." - 08/01/2007 Sight and Sound, p.87
"An operatic fusion of romance and history....SENSO was the first Italian film shot in three-strip Technicolor, and the images' texture -- vibrantly colored, yet soft and almost smudgy -- complements the movie's delirious passions." - 03/09/2011 A.V. Club
"Visconti observes it all in coolly elegant long takes....Theatrically dressed boudoirs highlight the deceptive lover's penchant for performance..." - 03/01/2011 Film Comment
"[T]his beautifully shot film about the deranging power of mad, doomed love certainly has a history that makes it qualify as what the French call a film maudit, a cursed film." - 11/29/2018 Los Angeles Times
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