The Damned

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Jose R The Damned presents Ingrid Thulin as the ultimate aristocratic villain—cold, calculating, and oozing with the kind of evil that only unchecked greed and power can create. Her performance is a masterclass in moral decay, a chilling reminder that real-life horrors often outpace even the darkest cinema. Visconti’s portrayal of fascism is seductive in its elegance—dark, brutal, and insidious. But today’s version? It’s loud, crass, and completely devoid of any subtlety. In a strange way, the past’s refined malevolence almost seems classy by comparison. How times have changed—and not for the better. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/18/25 Full Review Jeremy W A pedantic, ill-researched pseudo literary Gothic collection of nonsequiturs aiming to portray nazism, military capitalist power and sordid, I mean truly sordid, family politics and greed. And a bloated, boring failure of a movie that pitches it's pretence of deep significance with screeching, shallow melodrama. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/25 Full Review Tamara K You know you're watching a film with no quality control when Nazis are smoking filter tipped cigarettes when they were invented until the 1950s. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought it was boring . I love Italian cinema but of the 3 Visconti films I've watched only Ludwig grabbed my attention. Lots of overacting and quite a lot of dull moments. What is the point of all this . Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/22 Full Review Audience Member I'd forgotten just how sick and twisted a film The Dammed is. Probably the best account of the moral corruption of Nazism. Seen through a family tearing itself apart. Essential cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Not only the generalized victims suffered during pre-WW2, everyone suffered. Even the bourgeois class suffered. The Damned gives us a perspective not very unlike movies like "The Night Porter, Mr.Klein and Mepisto", kind of the same essence are being absorbed. The cold innerself, lost in the shell of a sharp dressed appearance, until the mind gets lost into the absurd seriousness of the fall of a nation, an empire and nearly the whole world. Hollow, empty and meaningless alongside the strive for class, lust and pleasure. Intoxicated gay nazi's are being slaughtered, not sadisticly but relentless. Visconti beating Pasolini with 6 years of settling onto the sadistic nazi/fascistic empire. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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