One of cinema's classics (1953) which in some ways has dated badly.
Great looking film...sets, locations, costumes, lighting...can't compensate for the story of an aristocratic Italian woman in the 1850's, during Italy's tumultuous transition to a unified state, who falls in love with a callow young officer in the occupying Austrian army. Their behavior is so overwrought...she crazy/blind in love, he sly/calculating...the film reminded me of the melodramas done in the 20's silents.
Granger's lines were all dubbed in Italian which didn't help. Visconti dealt with this time period to much greater effect ten years later with The Leopard.
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