L’Innocente Trailer: Luchino Visconti’s Final Film Receives 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration

Capping off a remarkable career, Luchino Visconti’s final film _L’Innocente _was released in 1976 to much acclaim. For its 50th anniversary, a new 4K adaptation of his adaptation of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s 1892 novel starring Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, and Jennifer O’Neill, will now be rolling out in theaters. Ahead of the December 11 release beginning at Film Forum, the new trailer and poster have arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Set in aristocratic Rome at the turn of the 20th century, wealthy and self-absorbed nobleman Tullio Hermil (Giancarlo Giannini) carries on an affair with a sophisticated yet possessive widow, Countess Teresa Raffo (Jennifer O’Neill), while treating his devoted wife, Giuliana (Laura Antonelli), with cold condescension. Wounded by his years of neglect, Giuliana takes a lover of her own with young novelist, Filippo (Marc Porel). When she becomes pregnant with Filippo’s child, Tullio’s wounded pride cannot be contained, setting off a chain of events leading to ultimate tragedy.”

A selection at Cannes Classics and the New York Film Festival, the film is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an Arriscan film scanner from the original camera negative by Cinelab Service in Italy. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and jitter were manually removed using Phoenix and color grading was performed shot by shot using Resolve Studio. The monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit and all clicks, thumps, hum, and crackle were manually removed using isotope RX 8. All video and audio restoration was done at Heavenly Movie Corporation by Sebastian Alvarez del Castillo.

See the trailer and poster below.