Οѕѕesѕіόne 1943

L uchino V isconti's first film! Hard to find and well worth watching-- better yet, download it and help keep it in circulation. Visconti is one of my favorites, right up there with Fellini and Truffaut. His sense of dramatic flow is very "sostenuto," to borrow a term from music-- wherever you cut into the narrative, there's always something quietly brewing, something about to happen. Visconti has a subdued, kinda "uneventful" quality and a slow pace, so what I just said might seem strange. I only discovered how tightly-woven and always-in-motion his narrative sense is when I started to break this movie up into clips-- and found out how difficult it is. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035160/