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Senso (The Wanton Countess)

Senso

1954

Luchino Visconti

Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Rina Morelli ...

7.2

2,199

Drama. Romance In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) sees her cousin challenging the Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler (Farley Granger) for a duel in the opera and being arrested and sent to the exile for one year. When she meets Mahler, she first hates him but after a night together walking along the streets in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Visconti's filming is richly atmospheric (...) 'Senso' is lush, broadly emotional and beautifully photographed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A.H. Weiler The New York Times	"It is closer to soap opera than Mr. Visconti imagined (...) [Alida Valli] should be credited with carrying an overly heavy romantic role fairly effectively."	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Luchino Visconti at his most baroque and the Italian cinema at its most spectacular (1953). A fine tragic performance by Alida Valli and surprisingly good work by Farley Granger"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"It’s not the deepest or weightiest of Visconti’s films, but it’s one of his most ravishingly beautiful and one of his most lavishly entertaining."	POS
United States	Dennis Lim Los Angeles Times	"Visconti's great achievement here is in giving equal importance to both the romance and the history"	POS
United States	Variety	"'Senso' is an elegant, expensively-produced, period love story (...) Luchino Visconti’s direction is evident in every detail of the picture"	POS

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