Senso
A passionate doomed love affair among the corrupt aristocracy
A passionate doomed love affair among the corrupt aristocracy
Drama, Romance, War
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1954
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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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Runtime:
123 min
Release date:
25 Mar 1954
Country:
IT
Languages:
Italian, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Senso is lush, broadly emotional and beautifully photographed.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
29 Aug 2014
fresh:
Senso is an elegant, expensively-produced, period love story, set back in the Italian 1860s, and a stylist delight.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Like other Visconti melodramas, [Senso is] sumptuous in its Technicolor expressionism.
– Tony Rayns,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
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,
10 May 2005
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,
1 Jan 2000