Fresh
Senso is lush, broadly emotional and beautifully photographed.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Senso
A passionate doomed love affair among the corrupt aristocracy
1954 · 2h 3m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Luchino Visconti
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Senso
Overview
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Director and cast
- Luchino Visconti Director
- Alida Valli as La contessa Livia Serpieri
- Farley Granger as Il Tenente Franz Mahler
- Heinz Moog as Il conte Serpieri
- Massimo Girotti as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
- Rina Morelli as Laura, la governante
- Christian Marquand as Un ufficiale boemo
- Sergio Fantoni Cast
- Tino Bianchi Cast
- Ernst Nadherny Cast
- Tonio Selwart Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Senso is an elegant, expensively-produced, period love story, set back in the Italian 1860s, and a stylist delight.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Like other Visconti melodramas, [Senso is] sumptuous in its Technicolor expressionism.
Tony Rayns, Time Out
Rotten
It is an obvious, rudimentary operatic approach to amour and an illustration of history that is likely to be fuzzy to anyone but a student of Garibaldi's 1866 campaign in and around Venice and Verona.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Fresh
A lush, melodramatic portrait of seduction and betrayal, decadence and deceit in the midst of Italy's resistance to Austrian occupation in the mid-19th century.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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