Sandra (1965)

Original title

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...

Directed by

Luchino Visconti

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to her family's estate in Volterra, Italy, with her American husband. She rekindles a complicated relationship with her brother, stirring up painful memories and confronting the family's buried past.

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What happens

Sandra (Italian: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, lit. 'Glimmering stars of the Great Bear'), also known as Of These Thousand Pleasures, is a 1965 drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, and Michael Craig. A modern-day retelling of the Electra story, the film centers on the incestuous relationship between a young Italian woman (Cardinale) and her brother (Sorel), on her return to their ancestral home of Volterra. It premiered at the 26th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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