Luchino Visconti - A Portrait Rating: Release Date: 11 September, 2001 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Burt Lancaster Claudia Cardinale Alain Delon Marcello Mastroianni Complete Cast (11 total)

Luchino Visconti - A Portrait Reviews

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A superficial look at a great director
The great Visconti ultimately deserves a better tribute than this video which looks as if it had been thrown together on short order for Italian television. There is precious little of the Maestro himself, and much too little of the films and in the end this documentary has been done with little imagination.
This might suffice as a biographical introduction to Visconti, but the viewer would be better off watching the films and reading one of a number of biographies and critical studies available on Amazon.

A Portrait?
Visconti films are NOT mass media and should not be treated as such. I feel strongly if one cannot grasp this masters work with a level of sophistication required for one of Visconti's standing, let it alone............please. This is a portrait but not one I want to look at.

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