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Senso

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86% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A wanton contessa loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer in the 1860s Venice.

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Alain Tanner Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020
However inferior it may be to La Terra Trema it can only strengthen Visconti's position as one of the major directors of the contemporary cinema. Go to Full Review
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Nov 29, 2018
Not usually seen as one of the cinema's great romantics, Visconti with "Senso" made a film that both celebrated and mocked the very idea of romantic love, and the film remains resolutely itself after all these years. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Aug 29, 2014
4/4
Senso is lush, broadly emotional and beautifully photographed. Go to Full Review
André Bazin L'Obs (France) Jun 12, 2023
Visconti claims that in Senso he wanted to show the “melodrama” (read: the opera) of life. If this was his intention, his film is a complete success. Go to Full Review
David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 13, 2021
Visconti's determined attempt to make lifelike, dramatically convincing sense of individual human behavior as the expression of historical and social processes is both illuminating and liberating. This is the way toward life, not away from it. Go to Full Review
Adrian Turner Radio Times Aug 29, 2014
3/5
As usual with Visconti, there is a welter of baroque effects and an acute sense of history. Go to Full Review
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Movie Info

Synopsis A wanton contessa loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer in the 1860s Venice.
Director
Luchino Visconti
Screenwriter
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Distributor
Rialto Pictures
Production Co
Lux Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 26, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 29, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$27.7K
Runtime
2h 5m
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