Michael Sooriyakumaran is a PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at the University of Toronto. His writing has appeared in Asian Cinema, Frames Cinema Journal, Mise en scène: The Journal of Visual Narration, and Offscreen.
The city of Visconti’s film is a palimpsest in which postwar modernity (nightclubs, movie theatres, beatniks, and loose women) is superimposed on the ruins of the city’s gothic past. Rather[…]