"The films of Luchino Visconti are among the most stylistically and intellectually influential of postwar Italian cinema. Born a scion of ancient nobility, Visconti integrated the most heterogeneous elements of aristocratic sensibility and taste with a committed Marxist political consciousness, backed by a firm knowledge of Italian class structure."
- Joel Kanoff (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia)
"This Italian director offered strong, stern, unremitting portraits of societies, often high, and veneers crumbling under exterior pressures. Most of them are impressive, and beautifully decorated with all the visual elegance of a man who was both set designer and costume designer early in his career."
- David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors)
"Aristocrat, Marxist, Neo-Realist, theatre and opera director, and decadence-monger, Luchino Visconti was a man of contradictions, a fact that is reflected in his work."
- Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions)
"He was a great lover and director of opera, and his films are highly operatic in the intensity of feeling on display - often against the background of great historical events. It's an oeuvre that owes as much to Freud as it does to Marx. Visconti's homosexuality is also a key aspect of his vision. There's an uninhibited sensuousness about the way the camera dwells on beautiful young men in La terra trema, Rocco and His Brothers and, most obviously, in Death in Venice (1971), while Senso is almost entirely seen from the viewpoint of the lovelorn countess who is obsessed with Farley Granger's narcissistic pretty boy."
- Tom Charity (The Rough Guide to Film)
"The themes that predominate in his work are the solidarity and destructive power of family relationships, either corporate (as in The Damned and Rocco) or separate. Visconti's understanding of family as a dynastic entity is expanded in The Leopard and Senso, where he examines the substance of the old order, the challenge of the new."
- Margaret Hinxman (The International Encyclopedia of Film)
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
– Luchino Visconti
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