The Age of Innocence
Where the DNA of The Age of Innocence travels
Films that shaped it
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Senso Atlas note
On the Criterion Blu-ray audio commentary for 'The Age of Innocence', Martin Scorsese discussed how Luchino Visconti's period dramas, particularly 'Senso' (1954) and 'The Leopard' (1963), were crucial influences for their visual grandeur, meticulous historical detail, and their ability to convey the suffocating nature of aristocratic society.
Films it shaped
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I was looking at the way Scorsese used narration in The Age of Innocence as a way to clarify information and deepen the irony, but also the way the camera moves to reveal the hidden emotional architecture. And how the details of that world, the costumes, the manners, become part of the repression.
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Luca Guadagnino has cited Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, a 1968 Italian film in which a mysterious stranger arrives and seduces every member of a bourgeois family, as the direct narrative model for what happens between Elio and Oliver that summer. Wong Kar-wai's influence is everywhere in the texture: desire as something felt in light and fabric before it's understood as feeling. Teorema is on MUBI and will change how you read the film.
