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 David B As cold and sterile as a brand new walk-in freezer. Even the nude bodies are as sexless and lifeless as raw fillets that have just had the silver skin peeled off them. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/22/23 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 kliff h 12/10-22 (rewatch) Criterion 2K. A long dark and gritty section of Viscontis visions of the Nazi rise to power. Its hard to not think of movies in the same genre like, Salo, Mephisto, The Night Porter etc. So much suffering and hardship in the 30-40s, endless disgust and countless lives taken for no good reason. Yet Visconti himself, as openly gay at the time and beyond, makes this into a crusade for his proclaiming sexuality, protraiting the nazis as very overrepresentive gay, as to faulter them even more. So were parts are manageable realistic it turns to a orgy fest, without any real grip of reality. He paints the dangers though lack to emphasise it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 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 Read all reviews

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