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Screening in a new 4K restoration, this lush, Technicolor, tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, during the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger. Gilded with ornate sets and costumes, a rich classical soundtrack, and fiery dialogue by Tennessee Williams, this operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust, from one of the cinema’s great sensualists. A visual inspiration for Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Senso is a devastatingly beautiful, breathlessly entertaining epic that reveals “Luchino Visconti at his most baroque and the Italian cinema at its most spectacular,” in the words of the Chicago Reader’s Dave Kehr.
Director Luchino Visconti | 1954 | In Italian with English subtitles | 123 minutes | NR | DCP
