LUCHINO VISCONTI    120!  50! Ab Do, 02.04.

ENTER THE WORLD of Luchino Visconti

LAST MOVIE OF THE RETROSPECTIVE CinemAperitivo: The Witches this Sunday 19th of April 4 P.M.

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976)

Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.

He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that "no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.” (The Guardia)

Luchino Visconti’s films are best described as a bridge between neorealist grit and operatic decadence. As a director who was both a Marxist and a Milanese aristocrat, his work is characterized by intense visual opulence, deep historical insight into the decline of the nobility, and a preoccupation with beauty, decay, and death.

Luchino Visconti's best films are celebrated for their opulent historical staging, intense emotional melodrama, and transition from raw Italian neorealism to lavish decadence.

His essential masterpieces include  Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963), Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Senso (1954), Morte a Venezia/Death in Venice (1971), La Terra Trema (1948) and his debut, Ossessione (1943)