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      Senso

      Released Oct 26, 2018 2h 5m Drama List
      88% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 73% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A wanton contessa (Alida Valli) loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer (Farley Granger) in 1860s Venice. Read More Read Less Watch on Max Stream Now

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      Alain Tanner Sight & Sound However inferior it may be to La Terra Trema it can only strengthen Visconti's position as one of the major directors of the contemporary cinema. Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Not usually seen as one of the cinema's great romantics, Visconti with "Senso" made a film that both celebrated and mocked the very idea of romantic love, and the film remains resolutely itself after all these years. Nov 29, 2018 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Senso is lush, broadly emotional and beautifully photographed. Rated: 4/4 Aug 29, 2014 Full Review André Bazin L'Obs (France) Visconti claims that in Senso he wanted to show the “melodrama” (read: the opera) of life. If this was his intention, his film is a complete success. Jun 12, 2023 Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Visconti's determined attempt to make lifelike, dramatically convincing sense of individual human behavior as the expression of historical and social processes is both illuminating and liberating. This is the way toward life, not away from it. Feb 13, 2021 Full Review Adrian Turner Radio Times As usual with Visconti, there is a welter of baroque effects and an acute sense of history. Rated: 3/5 Aug 29, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Marc C Deeply disturbing tragedy, the countess wears a veil of sorrow through...film in Italian Venice by the canal in the 50's appears nice Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/21/23 Full Review William L Senso has some wonderful production value, bright color, and a storyline that has more disillusionment than the vast majority of period romances. Valli's Countess Livia Serpieri is sexually and romantically unfulfilled, and throws herself without inhibition into the arms of Granger's Franz Maller, a young officer of a foreign military at war with her own, who woos her with honeyed words but ultimately only sees her as a source of wealth and influence. Their doomed affair is based on self-serving interests, neither is sympathetic, and each of them are quite animalistic and crude underneath their thin veneer of respectability. The film does well to present what is initially a rather conventional forbidden affair (the unbridled passion that stereotypically makes it into department store novels for bored housewives), and twisting it into something more macabre and dark, providing real (even exaggerated) consequence to their relationship (which ends up inadvertently resulting in the deaths of dozens of Italian soldiers). However, the development of the masochism associated with the pair (the feature that drives the plot and makes the film interesting) is actually pretty static - Maller's self-interest is evident from very early on, and many of the scenes between them feel padded for time. The visuals of the Italian countryside, period urban life, and warfare are all exceptionally engaging, though. (3.5/5) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/21 Full Review Audience Member High-class melodrama is not my favourite thing (and I think neither was Visconti's) but this is quite the captivating work with beautiful photography. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review s r 1001 movies to see before you die. Something different than I have ever seen. It made me nostalgic for Austria and Italy. It shows the benefits and risks of love. Saw on HBO. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It has some moments but Senso is ultimately devoid of likeability. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member An extravagant, sexy and ruthless portrayal of the self-destruction of the upper class, a theme repeatedly explored in Luchino Visconti's latter films. The incompatibility of Nationalism might, however, be less echoic to contemporary audience provided that Visconti's sympathy towards Socialism makes his other films more humanistic than this one. But still, Visconti's first attempt to transit to melodrama is affectionate and colourful. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A wanton contessa (Alida Valli) loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer (Farley Granger) in 1860s Venice.
      Director
      Luchino Visconti
      Screenwriter
      Suso Cecchi d'Amico
      Distributor
      Rialto Pictures
      Production Co
      Lux Film
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 26, 2018, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 29, 2019
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $27.7K
      Runtime
      2h 5m
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