Product: Ludwig - [Import, 2 DVD Set]
Rating: 5.0
Moonlight' s lover
Luchino Visconti' s cinematography is extremely interesting to analyze because of the fact, he is just one of the few directors in the cinema' s history that demands from the viewer a compelling vision, that ranges an impressive sort of artistic disciplines, (such as Robert Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Dreyer, David Ward Griffith, Jean Renoir among the most representative ones) who embodied what Wagner meant by total art.In this sense, Ludwig is one of the most ambitious films ever made. You must be prepared to watch a movie that tells us a story enrooted in a crucial historical period, so you must know what happened in Germany after the 1848' s conflict, the life of Richard Wagner, the complex relations between him and Nietzsche, the historical moment is determinant, Wagner is preparing his Tristan, but the main aspect to remark is that possibly as never before we have the most brutal portrait of any other monarch before the art after the bloody French revolution,Visconti becomes aware his tribulations, grandness delirious, as well as his gradual breakthrough with his surrounding and ominous reality, his interior conflicts, his not corresponded love with his cousin; so lyrically expressed by Visconti through an emblematic game of shades and lights, his efforts for trying to return the art its authentic importance into the social body, Ludwig is conscious about that; all of us know about how the trivialization of the arts achieved an undeserved place around the world. To restore the antique dignity and sheer relevance to the art was the main reason that led Ludwig to build Bayreuth in 1876 for Wagner's sake.And Visconti - who also was a true aristocrat of the visual arts - you may realize about his visible sumptuousness, the winged elegance in what his characters displace, the particular tempo in which Visconti displays the story, the breathtaking landscapes, the formidable angle shots and the poetic language makes an artistic wholeness in which the voluptuousness, solitude, desperation and decadence are certainly a part of it.So, when you are ready to watch this supreme artistic legacy, take your time and get into an universe completely different. There have been two notable directors in the actuality who have been captivated for Visconti' style, because they are aware how effective and expressive results: Coppola (establish by yourself the surprising analogy around the use of the game of lights and shades in the most intimate sequences of the Godfather I, and Martin Scorsese in The age of innocence), but the style will never be achieved by simple imitation, due it's the final product of a Cosmo vision.At the moment to make a scrutinizing selection of the most important films of the seventies, include this one and the Innocent (the swan's song' Visconti) among the most pyramidal ones.