The Damned (1969)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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What critics compared The Damned to
If there are traces of Visconti here, they refer not to “The Damned,” which belabored a grand and screwed-up family as it slid into the clutches of Nazism, but to an earlier, more pitying film like “Rocco and His Brothers,” in which lust chewed up another family in a doomy Milan.
Check out Luchino Visconti’s own 1969 classic “The Damned” if you’d like to see an aristocratic European family with closets full of genuinely terrifying skeletons.
So he has the sense of film history and about 10 minutes into it, I’m saying, my God, this is Visconti’s “The Damned.”
The sickly sweet tone reminds me of Luchino Visconti's pageant of fascist "beauty," The Damned (1969), as well as his adaptation of Mann's Death in Venice (1971).
Niels Arden Oplev's perfunctory adaptation of Larsson's first book veers from Visconti's The Damned to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs without the decadence or the thrills of either.
There will be plenty of people (who haven’t seen Bertolucci’s "1900" or never heard of Elem Klimov’s "Come and See," or Visconti’s "The Damned," or have forgotten Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket") raving about this being the greatest war movie ever made.