Luchino Visconti | Zavvi’s A To Z Of Directors

Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of the founding fathers of neorealism and had a major influence on a whole new generation of filmmakers today. He delivered some of the most stylistic and sumptuous films of Italian post-war cinema that continue to resonate today within the works of directors like Wes Anderson with his vibrant colour palettes, and Francis Ford Coppola in gangster family drama The Godfather. Moreover, as an openly gay film director, Visconti can be considered as paving the way for a movement we now call queer cinema with his homoerotic classic Death in Venice.26323