Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... )

D: Luchino Visconti


I have been on a real Visconti kick lately after re-watching Senso. There are certain films, just like there are certain books, you should not watch early in life and Viscont's work is in that place for me.  I saw Rocco and his Brothers and the Leopard years ago and while I understood them to be "masterpieces," I did not have the life experience to actually deal with what the movies were saying.


Sandra is a later film and completely unavailable on DVD in the United States. It deals with Auschwitz while still working in a framework of forbidden love and class differences.  It is a fascinating film if not on the same level as the ones mentioned above but perhaps people disagree with that assessment? 


Links in the comments and subtitles included.

Claudia Cardinale as Sandra