Imperfect and excessive -- and also essential.
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10/22/08
The Damned (1969)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family... [More]
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Reviews for The Damned
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10/30/06
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01/26/06
By boldly confronting the psycho-sexual depravity of the Nazi mindset, all the way through to is inevitable incestuous nature, Visconti creates a specific cinematic vernacular for viewing and discussing Hitler's manic ideology.
09/26/05
Visual remarkable, endlessly inventive critque of Hitler's Germany.
08/13/05
No review available.
06/19/05
The Damned is a lot of things – bilious and perverse are the two first adjectives that spring to mind – but one thing it is not is a film of half-measures.
07/21/04
Occassionally overflows with self-indulgence and didacticism, weakening an otherwise and often potent critique
06/27/04
By the end of the opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots.
02/17/04
the script feels like it's written by a graduate student doing a research paper on Mein Kampf
02/09/04
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08/29/03
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05/24/03
A spectacle of such greedy passion, such uncompromising sensation, and such obscene shock that it makes you realize how small and safe and ordinary most movies are.
05/20/03
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