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...Sandra, Visconti's vision of brother-meets-sister. Mather House Dining Hall, 8, Thurs...
...Terra Trema, 1948 Visconti film. Mather House dining hall, 8, March...
Kazan is generally known as a "realistic" director, but The Visitors is a reminder that his style is really much closer to a kind of operatic melodrama reminiscent of Luchino Visconti. Sometimes this works well for him. His first shot of one of the Army buddies is from close behind, as the man stares at some distant hills; the image conveys an intangible sense of menace. More often, though, the style amounts only to mannerism. Even the performances-guiding actors has always been Kazan's greatest strength -are surprisingly disappointing. Only Steve Railsback and Chico Martinez, as the visitors...
...decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed him, and--with the comic tone of a benign cuckold--tolerates wife Sanda's lesbianism. Bertollucci expresses his characters' anxieties and pleasures without the heavy hand of The Damned's Luchino Visconti: depraved emotions are not slobbered over...
...REAL PROOF of an all--too--worldly' morality lies in Dominique Sanda's Micol. Showing herself as an almost incestuous alter ego to Helmut Berger's Alberto, her cool beauty fails to mask a festering decadence that has been epitomized by Berger's own performances in Visconti's The Damned, and Bertollucci's The Conformist. While society is being corrupted outside the garden, the self-contained life-style perpetuated by the Finzi-Continis on the inside is rotting at the core. Raised as a bluestocking, Micol quips to Giorgio that she's writing her thesis on Emily Dickenson, "a dried...