Senso (1954)
8/10
Unrequited love among ruins of the war!!!
18 August 2019
An Classy picture made by Visconti, on a occupied Italy by Austrian's army, the revolution is about to come, on this environment the Countess Livia Serpiere (Alida Valli) falling in love for a young Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler (Farley Granger), initially both keep a secret meetings, the war explodes and she was sent to a family's farmer in countryside, suddenly he appears asking for money to bribe a doctor to declare him inapt to fight, actually the Austrian's officer is a crook, trying to handle the desperate woman in love, later she met him living with a younger girl at the his fancy house, drunk and throwing in her face how she was so foolish to believing in such love, humiliated and bruised so deeply she decides put a final point in this sad facts which disgraced her life, having the Italian revolution as backdrop, many corpses along the way, all this on ruins everywhere, a real tragic picture, Alida Valli has an astonishing action, Farley Granger not quite!!!

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First watch: 2012 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5
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