Revivals
L’innocente
Luchino Visconti
North American Premiere of New 4K Restoration
In his final film, Luchino Visconti offers a poison-pill variation on the theme that consumed his career—the moral decay of the soul-sick aristocracy—while achieving a masterful synthesis of stylistic splendor and emotional intensity.
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Country
- Italy/
France - Language
- Italian
- Year
- 1976
- More information
- Official film page
Screenings
In his final film, Luchino Visconti offers one of his most cutting variations on his lifelong theme: the moral decay of the soul-sick aristocracy. Based on a novel by the proto-fascist sensualist Gabriele d’Annunzio, this poison-pill melodrama concerns a callously self-absorbed nobleman (Giancarlo Giannini) whose liberal views on marriage extend only as far as his own extramarital affairs. When his tormented wife (Laura Antonelli) pursues a dalliance with a writer, the full monstrosity of his chauvinism is unleashed. Working with a late-career rigor, Visconti returns one last time to the luxuriant, red-velvet world of the 19th century, stripping away operatic excess in favor of a supremely controlled emotional intensity. A Film Movement release.
New digital transfer created in 4K resolution on an Arriscan film scanner from the original camera negative by Cinelab Service in Italy. All video and audio restoration done at Heavenly Movie Corporation by Sebastian Alvarez del Castillo.
In his final film, Luchino Visconti offers one of his most cutting variations on his lifelong theme: the moral decay of the soul-sick aristocracy. Based on a novel by the proto-fascist sensualist Gabriele d’Annunzio, this poison-pill melodrama concerns a callously self-absorbed nobleman (Giancarlo Giannini) whose liberal views on marriage extend only as far as his own extramarital affairs. When his tormented wife (Laura Antonelli) pursues a dalliance with a writer, the full monstrosity of his chauvinism is unleashed. Working with a late-career rigor, Visconti returns one last time to the luxuriant, red-velvet world of the 19th century, stripping away operatic excess in favor of a supremely controlled emotional intensity. A Film Movement release.
New digital transfer created in 4K resolution on an Arriscan film scanner from the original camera negative by Cinelab Service in Italy. All video and audio restoration done at Heavenly Movie Corporation by Sebastian Alvarez del Castillo.