- 100th anniversary of the birth of Luchino Visconti, cinematographer (1906-1976)

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100th anniversary of the birth of Luchino Visconti, cinematographer (1906-1976)

Países : Italy
Año : 2006

Luchino Visconti was one of the primary forces of Italian cinema. His works had a considerable impact on world cinema. Aristocratic by birth, Visconti was a master of both harsh realism and sublime melodrama. A leading light of the neo-realist movement in the 1940s, he also acquired a reputation as an innovative theatre and opera director. With Senso in 1954, a real masterpiece with a Stendhalian scenario and tone, he offered a new reading of the Italian Risorgimento. He then mixed contemporary subjects – as in Rocco and his brothers (1960) – with a meditation on the past and on a lost world that left a deep mark on the present, as in The Leopard (1963, adapted from the novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa). Between 1969 and 1973, he directed a trilogy of Germanic films – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1970), Ludwig (1973), which constitutes his true artistic testament. In all his films, visual splendour is combined with meticulous realism and deep historical and psychological insight.

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