Sandra (Visconti, 1965): Cine Lumiere, 2pm
This film is part of the Claudia Cardinale season at Cine Lumiere. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
The past weighs heavily on the present in this 1965 family saga by
Luchino Visconti, though for much of the running time that weight is
more felt than understood. Young Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) returns to
her hometown in Northern Italy to dedicate a monument to her father, a
Jewish scholar killed in the Holocaust. Her husband is uncomfortable
with the aristocratic clan, but only near the end does Sandra’s real
antagonist emerge: her stepfather, who may have betrayed the father to
the Nazis and who now insinuates that Sandra and her raffish brother
have a dark secret of their own. Cardinale has been criticized for her
performance, which seems too emotive given the hard surfaces presented
by the other players, but Visconti, shooting in black and white with
cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi, subordinates all the actors to the
ornate interiors of the family’s decaying mansion; as in The Leopard (1963), one senses not just the glory but the burden of wealth.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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