The lavish, colorful depictions of stately villas with their sumptuous furnishings and immortal art work and the characters’ exquisite attire are matched by the director’s carnal delight in the beautiful people themselves. – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti’s (The Leopard) final masterpiece is set in late-19th-century Italy. The aristocratic Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini, Swept Away) grows bored with his wife, Giuliana (Laura Antonelli), and neglects her for the more exciting Countess Teresa Raffo (Jennifer O’Neill, Scanners)—but is tormented by the news that Giuliana is having a torrid affair of her own. With sumptuous visuals and passionate emotion, “It’s a film of effortless command in which the director’s presence is everywhere felt—and nowhere intrudes” (New York Times).