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Visconti: A Retrospective
June 8 - August 15, 2018
One of Visconti’s most profoundly personal films is a provocative essay on class, art, sex, and death, starring Burt Lancaster as a retired professor whose dignified solitude is upended by a turbulent marchesa and her bisexual boy toy.
Visconti reunited with The Leopard star Burt Lancaster for this profoundly personal, contemporary chamber study. Once again the actor is cast as an emblem of Old World honor passing into obsolescence, here a retired professor living out a quiet retirement in his art-stuffed Roman palazzo; his dignified solitude is drastically upended by a turbulent marchesa (a serpentine Silvana Mangano) and her bisexual boy toy (Helmut Berger) who insinuate themselves into his life. Visconti masterfully interweaves a provocative shuffling of ideas—on class, sex, art, fascism—in what is ultimately his own disquieting confrontation with mortality. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
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