Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast includes French film star Alida Valli as a Italian countess married to a Venetian nobleman, and English leading man Farley Granger as an Austrian military officer. The two are swept up in the Austrian empire's .. Read more
| Starring | Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand |
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| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast includes French film star Alida Valli as a Italian countess married to a Venetian nobleman, and English leading man Farley Granger as an Austrian military officer. The two are swept up in the Austrian empire's evacuation of Italy in 1866. Valli and Granger fall in love, but Valli ultimately realizes that the officer is interested only in her wealth and prestige, whereupon she gives him over to a firing squad. Visconti had wanted Ingrid Bergman and Marlon Brando for his leads, but when Bergman's husband Roberto Rossellini would not permit her to appear in the film, Brando also bowed out. Originally running 166 minutes, Senso was released in a radically cut version in the US in 1968, titled Summer Hurricane; yet another recut version popped up in England as The Wanton Contessa.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand |
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| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Italian |
| Released | Production year: 1953 To Rent: DVD: not available To Buy: DVD: 09 Jul 2007 |
Like other Visconti melodramas, sumptuous in its Technicolor expressionism, Senso sees heterosexual love through... read more on Time Out
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A wonderful, majestic piece of work
Fabulous to find not just that 'Senso' has been released on a new disc, but that it's the full version, in Italian: there aren't many films ... read more »
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Tear jerker
This film was long enough at 116 minutes; hard to imagine sitting through the 166 minute version. The colour looks colourised, though it isn't. Using the ... read more »
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A great Venice film
Senso, along with Death in Venice, is one of the two great 20th century Venetian films. Visconti's version of Boito's novella strongly hints at ... read more »
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Discount Visconti
Some very nice shots of Venice – and then some fairly stagey looking set based shots form the backdrop to this literary adaptation of Camillo Boito. Does ... read more »
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