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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 .. Read more

Starring	Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand
Director	Luchino Visconti
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Like other Visconti melodramas, sumptuous in its Technicolor expressionism, Senso sees heterosexual love through... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:20
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- - 8
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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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  - 06 Sep 2007 at 09:09
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- - 0
  - 0
  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 customer
  - 25 Sep 2011 at 17:50
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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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  - Chiswick
  - 17 May 2010 at 12:22
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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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- - Stephen
  - North Cornelly, South Wales
  - 28 Dec 2009 at 13:58
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  Do Your Duty...
  
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  Set against the backdrop of the Austrian War of Unification and loosely based on the decadent and far less subtle Camillo Boito novella of the same name, ... read more »
  
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- - Melodraman
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  - Behind the Sofa
  - 16 Mar 2009 at 13:37
- - 0
  - 0
  Companion piece to The Leopard
  
  Some months back I rented Tinto Brass' Senso 45 aka Dark Angel, in which a Venetian countess embarks on an adulterous affair with a German soldier during ... read more »
  
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  - 14 Jan 2009 at 13:36
- - 8
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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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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 06 Sep 2007 at 09:09
- - 5
  - 0
  High Tragedy
  
  I had wondered whether this would ever be on DVD. Its a fascinating melodrama (and that would I suspect be a positive description for Visconti) which looks ... read more »
  
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- - Kevin Lloyd
  - London
  - 26 Aug 2007 at 10:45
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- - 8
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 472480
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 06 Sep 2007 at 09:09
- - 5
  - 0
  High Tragedy
  
  I had wondered whether this would ever be on DVD. Its a fascinating melodrama (and that would I suspect be a positive description for Visconti) which looks ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 469309
- - Kevin Lloyd
  - London
  - 26 Aug 2007 at 10:45
- - 1
  - 0
  Do Your Duty...
  
  THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS | Show review anywayHide
  
  Set against the backdrop of the Austrian War of Unification and loosely based on the decadent and far less subtle Camillo Boito novella of the same name, ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 727082
- - Melodraman
  - 8 reviews
  - Behind the Sofa
  - 16 Mar 2009 at 13:37
- - 0
  - 0
  Companion piece to The Leopard
  
  Some months back I rented Tinto Brass' Senso 45 aka Dark Angel, in which a Venetian countess embarks on an adulterous affair with a German soldier during ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 687732
- - a customer
  - London
  - 14 Jan 2009 at 13:36
- - 0
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 842781
- - Stephen
  - North Cornelly, South Wales
  - 28 Dec 2009 at 13:58
- - 0
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 892011
- - a customer
  - Chiswick
  - 17 May 2010 at 12:22
- - 0
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 1044733
- - a customer
  - 25 Sep 2011 at 17:50

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