The Innocent (1976) poster
1976 · drama · romance

The Innocent

Directed by Luchino Visconti2h 10m1976
ElsewhereIMDb7.44kRT79%TMDB6.9125
  • sombre
  • intense
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Our read · The Innocent (1976) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want lush Visconti melodrama of jealousy, passion and aristocratic decay.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 5/5feels its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if slow European drama or sexual double standards will bore or depress you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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