Visconti : Explorations of Beauty and Decay

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Summary: The Ultimate Visconti
Review: Henry Bacon has proven himself a brilliant researcher and author by writing the finest, and truest account of the master of film Luchino Visconti. Bacon's book is a highly detailed, fact filled documentary of the director's vision as it relates to his spectacular career. The book is the ultimate guide to anyone studying film or researching Visconti. Bacon has properly and intelligently put into context Visconti's aristocratic background in relation to his developing career, he has included every single film, and planned project including those that have been lost, and goes in-depth to discuss Visconti's frame of mind, project by project, and how his entire brillant career developed. Bacon has a clear intellectual knowledge of the true Visconti and has the facts to back up his claims. The work is in itself a masterpiece of film research. It is truly the finest biographical documentary of Visconti to date.