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The film, one of Visconti's better-known works, concerns a German industrialist's family which begins to disintegrate during the Nazi consolidation of power in the 1930s. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim, but also faced controversy from rating boards for its sexual content, including depictions of homosexuality , pedophilia , rape , and incest .
Jun 13, 2018 · The Melodramatic, Bloated, Indulgent Brilliance of Luchino Visconti. On April 15, 1944, in Rome, Fascist soldiers captured Luchino Visconti di Modrone, the Count of Lonate Pozzolo. Since the late ...
Nov 12, 2021 · His film of that infamous year, The Damned (La caduta degli dei; co-written by Visconti with Nicola Badalucco and Enrico Medioli), proved to be both a blessing and a curse. X-rated in the U.S ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Damned if You Do It. L uchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969) entangles two stories: the decline of an old high-bourgeois German family and the rise of National Socialism. “My film ends,” Visconti said, “where Nazism begins.”. At the film’s close, in 1934, Hitler’s party has secured state control and its barbarism is picking up steam ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Luchino Visconti (b. 1906–d. 1976) was one of Italy’s foremost directors of cinema, theater, and opera. A cultural figurehead of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), Visconti was seen as a major cinematic interpreter of the Italian Hegelian-Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci. To this political affiliation, one can also attach his upbringing ...
Feb 19, 2015 · Visconti was a lover and accomplished director of opera as well as film, and though he had used the world of opera more literally in films like Senso and Le Notti Bianchi, The Damned is the most extreme use of the passions and excesses of opera that is key to understanding Visconti’s art; of melodrama and histrionics set to a backdrop of key historical events but captured on their own ...
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Mar 11, 2019 · The industry, Visconti warned, was in the hands of corpses who, unaware of being dead, insisted on writing screenplays. 36 In ‘Tradition and invention’, Visconti singles out Verga as the author who could steer the film industry past the ‘banality and […] misery typical of current scenarios’. 37 Visconti emphatically recalls that reading Verga led him to realize how much less docile ...
