Senso (1954)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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What critics compared Senso to
I Am Love's stately visual style is dense with allusions to other movies: Visconti's Senso , De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis , and even Hitchcock's Vertigo , which is quoted in the spiral-shaped bun Emma wears in her hair.
It's directed by Luchino Visconti ("Ludwig"/"La Terra Trema"/ "Ossessione"), in his third film.
In Ossessione, the press of events commands the desperate, almost improvised murder, exactly as in Senso the vengeance of history destroys the Contessa and her dreams.
It's directed by Luchino Visconti ("Ludwig"/"La Terra Trema"/ "Ossessione"), in his third film.
Like his contemporaries Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, Visconti experimented with a realistic style, though it can be argued that he made only one genuine "Italian Neo-Realist" film, La Terra Trema (1948).