LUCHINO VISCONTI | ITALY, FRANCE | 1957 | 101 MIN | NR | ITALIAN
Two wandering and lonely souls (Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell) meet upon a canal bridge and spark a tumultuous romance in Visconti’s exquisite adaptation of Dostoevsky's “White Nights” that captures the crushing possibilities of new love.
Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni
Part of the Philadelphia Film Society's TAKE A BOW - VISCONTI director series.
Lucino Visconti may have helped usher in the Italian neorealist cinematic movement, but it’s his sweeping, near-operatic period dramas that secured his place as an all time master of cinema. Indulge in the director’s contradictory filmography that is as synonymous with aristocratic decadence as it is with proletariat struggle..
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