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The final film of Luchino Visconti, who died during post-production, L’Innocente is a ravishing conclusion to one of the most triumphant careers in European cinema.

Returning to a familiar milieu for the director, the film takes place in the late 19th century and follows a philandering aristocrat whose passion for his wife is reinvigorated when he discovers she has taken her own lover. However, his newfound happiness begins to unravel when he discovers she has fallen pregnant by her new tryst.

Visconti’s on-set physical ailments did not prevent him from crafting one of his most opulent works, with stunning costuming and production design contrasting the nefariousness in the hearts of the film’s characters. A fittingly acerbic and extravagant end to the filmmaker’s life and work.