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Luchino Visconti (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Luchino Visconti (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime
melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of
the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-maker
began in the 1930s when he escaped the stifling culture of Fascist
Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front.
Back in his native country in the 40s he was one of the founders of
the neo-realist movement. In 1954, with Senso, he turned his hand
to a historical spectacular. The result was both glorious to look
at and a profound reinterpretation of history. In "Rocco and His
Brothers" (1960) he returned to his neo-realist roots and in "The
Leopard" (1963), with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain
Delon, he made the first truly international film. He scored a
further success with "Death in Venice" (1971), a sensitive
adaptation of Thomas Mann's story about a writer (in the film, a
musician) whose world is devastated when he falls in love with a
young boy. A similar homo-erotic theme haunts "Ludwig" (1973), a
bio-pic about the King of Bavaria who prefers art to politics and
the company of stableboys to the princess he is supposed to marry.
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's classic study of the director was first
published in 1967 and revised in 1973. It is now updated to include
the last three films that Visconti made before his death, together
with some reflections on the "auteur" theory of which the original
edition was a key example.
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