Click here to copy URL

The Innocent

7.4

2,358

Ratings

Add to lists

Pro reviews

Links

Original title

L'innocenteaka

AKA

The Intruder

Year

1976

Running time

123 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Luchino Visconti

Screenwriter

Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. Novel: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Cast

Music

Franco Mannino

Cinematography

Pasqualino De Santis

Producer

Co-production Italy-France;

Les Films Jacques Leitienne, Rizzoli Film

Genre

Drama | Costume Drama. 19th Century

Synopsis

L'Innocente takes place among the social class to which Visconti belonged, but in the 1890s, ten years before he was born. This was to be Visconti's swansong, and he died just as the editing was being finished. The film tells the story of Tullio Hermil, a man whose pose is at odds with the society in which he lives. When his wife gets pregnant by a rival his world collapses around him and his emptiness is revealed.

NEW

About similar movies and series:

Similarity over 75%

Similarity between 60% and 75%

Similarity between 40% and 60%

Similarity below 40%

Similar Movies to The Innocent

Rankings Position

#66 Best Italian Movies of all time
#94 Best Movies of the '70s

Awards: 1975: David di Donatello Awards: Best Music

Show all

Critics' reviews

"Visconti's last film (completed in 1976 shortly before his death) and among the most beautiful and severely disciplined films he has ever made."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"'The Innocent' is classy but droopy, definitely the sort of art movie to avoid after a long hard day. Despite a story destined to take hideously melodramatic turns, the movie remains sedate and formal."

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post
"'The Innocent' is a beautifully made melodrama, whose elaborate and operatic moral dilemmas turn on issues that are curiosities today."

Time
"Director Luchino Visconti, a giant of modern Italian cinema, died three years ago, just before this film was completed. Too bad: The final U.S. version clearly lacks the master's touch."

People Magazine
"Visconti's last film strikes me as arguably the greatest of his late works apart from The Leopard -- a withering autocritique of masculine vanity and self-delusion."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"The film resolves itself into an almost painfully sincere meditation on masculine self-delusion. It has a great performance from Laura Antonelli as the wife, and excellent ones from Giannini and Jennifer O'Neill as husband and lover."

Tony Rayns: Time Out
"'L'Innocente' is the kind of opulent, passionate drama that risks folly to attain the sublime."

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
Show 2 more reviews

Movie Soulmates' ratings: Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.
Friends' ratings: Register so you can check out ratings by your friends, family members, and like-minded members of the FA community.

Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message.
If you are not a registered user please send us an email to [email protected]

All copyrighted material (movie posters, DVD covers, stills, trailers) and trademarks belong to their respective producers and/or distributors.

For US ratings information please visit: www.mpaa.org www.filmratings.com www.parentalguide.org

The Innocent

User history