Senso

Senso

1954 · 123 min · IT · 7.2 (259 votes)
Dir. Luchino Visconti · Starring Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand · Music Anton Bruckner

“A passionate doomed love affair among the corrupt aristocracy”

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A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

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A visually stunning, operatic descent into obsessive love and devastating betrayal. This film feels like a grand, tragic opera, drowning in passion and the ruins of war. It's a fever dream of doomed romance.

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