"If Stendhal had a camera, it would be like Senso," says Martin Scorsese of Visconti's elaborate melodrama.
Scorsese's deconstruction of Senso is of vital importance for it seemingly explains how Visconti's communist-tainted aristocratic upbringing informed the director's Marxist approach to filmmaking. Scorsese draws our attention toward Senso's colorful cinematography and how it monochromatically crumbles by film's end.
via: Slant
