Genève ça tourne redux

Sandra

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...

Luchino Visconti

Italy, France

1965, 105min

Fiction, Drama

VO. English, French, Hebrew, Italian

ST. English

With

Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig

A young bourgeois woman gets tired of Geneva's parties and decides to return to her hometown in Tuscany. In a more gothic than neo-realist atmosphere, the heroine meets her strange brother and an ambiguous relationship develops between them.

In collaboration with

After seven major works (including The Leopard), Luchino Visconti directed this film which gradually fell into oblivion, despite the filmmaker's keenness for this story of a young woman leaving her bourgeois environment in Geneva to return to her hometown in Tuscany. The atmosphere, oscillating between fantasy and melodrama, is seductive, as is the contrast between the glitz of Geneva, a haven for the worldly, and the sober beauty of the Etruscan city of Valterra.

Direction

Luchino Visconti

Screenplay

Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli, Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Image

Armando Nannuzzi

Editing

Mario Serandrei

Sound

Claudio Maielli, Bruno Borghi

Production

Vides Cinematografica (Franco Cristaldi)