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The Damned
Why this pick
Visconti's decadent Nazi-era family drama shares Cavani's lushly oppressive visual world, moral corruption, and uneasy fusion of political catastrophe with private sexual power.
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MOVIE1974 1h 58m ITA
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Why this pick
A refined, fading bourgeois world is quietly overtaken by fascism; its melancholy beauty and emotional restraint offer a less confrontational counterpart to Cavani's historical darkness.
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The Passenger
Why this pick
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Why this pick
For its uncompromising examination of fascism, eroticised domination, and the corruption of bodies by power, though Pasolini's approach is far colder and more confrontational.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It is 1957. During WWII, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazism SS officer who had posed as a doctor to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia Atherton, a Holocaust survivor, had an ambiguous sadomasochism relationship. Flashback (narrative) show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Charlotte Rampling
Lucia Atherton
Gabriele Ferzetti
Hans
Philippe Leroy
Klaus
Isa Miranda
Countess Stein