Luchino Visconti – Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… AKA Sandra of a Thousand Delights (1965)

Visconti’s retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy – and reviving an intimate involvement with her brother (Sorel) which troubles her naive American husband (Craig) – on the eve of an official ceremony commemorating the death of her Jewish father in a Nazi concentration camp. As ever with Visconti, he is ambivalently drawn to the decadent society he is ostensibly criticising; and Armando Nannuzzi’s camera lovingly caresses the creaking old mansion, set in a landscape of crumbling ruins, where the incestuous siblings determine to wreak revenge on the mother (Bell) and stepfather (Ricci) who supposedly denounced their father. Something like a Verdi opera without the music, the result may not quite achieve tragedy, but it looks marvellous. The title, culled from a poem by Leopardi, has been better rendered as ‘Twinkling Stars of the Bear’.

Sandra.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 36mn
Size:	3.28 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Not met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1920x1080
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	4 800 kb/s
Audio
Italian 2.0ch AAC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0E7F19890F769B5/Sandra.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, French