Retired American intellectual Burt Lancaster is somewhat bullied by brash Italian aristocrat Silvana Mangano into renting an apartment on the top floor of his home to her lover Helmut Berger. He immediately regrets the decision as they proceed to radically renovate the apartment, and Lancaster is drawn into their emotionally tumultuous lives.
A physically debilitating stroke drove Luchino Visconti towards making this much smaller scale, character piece, and I must say ... I like the change in style. It's, not…
