Senso [videorecording (Blu-ray)]= Feeling / Lux Film ; Studio Canal ; Janus Films ; directed by Luchino Visconti ; screenplay by Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico ; dialogue collaboration, Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles.
Title from container. Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Marcella Mariani. From the novella by Camillo Boito. Release date: Feb. 22, 2011. Special features: the celebrated Film Foundation/Cineteca di Bologna digital restoration, created in consultation with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno and Martin Scorsese; The Wanton countess, a rarely seen English version of the film; The making of Senso, a new documentary featuring Rotunno, assistant director Francesco Rosi, costume designer Piero Tosi, and Caterina D'Amico, daughter of screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico and author of Life and work of Luchino Visconti; Viva VERDI, a new documentary on Visconti, Senso, and opera; visual essay by film scholar Peter Cowie; Man of three worlds: Luchino Visconti, a 1966 BBC program exploring Visconti's mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction; new and improved English subtitle translation; booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker and author Mark Rappaport and an excerpt from actor Farley Granger's autobiography, Include me out.
Summary:
The story of a nineteenth century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant. Gilded with fearless performances, ornate costumes and sets, and a rich classical soundtrack, Visconti's operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust from one of the cinema's great sensualists.
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