Seventh session of the Carte Blanche to Luis Miguel Cintra, a cycle of films, talks and conferences accompanying the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. This session will feature a screening of Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954).

12 OCT | SUN | 17:00

SENSO

Luchino Visconti | ITA | 1954 | 123'

‘Senso’ is the apogee of historical melodrama, staged like a Verdi opera. In Venice, occupied by the Austrians in the mid-19th century, an Italian countess allied with the patriots falls madly in love with an officer who has deserted the occupying army. All the insanity of tempestuous passions, with war and revolution as a backdrop, generating conflicts of existence and behaviour that are reproduced in an obsessive and tragic way... To the sound of Bruckner's music and Verdi's ‘Il Trovatore’, ‘Senso’ is a carnal film, supported by sumptuous cinematography that underlines Visconti's operatic nature who, having departed from his neorealist origins, would become one of cinema's most astute analysts of passion."