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Visconti continued working throughout the 1950s, although he veered away from the neorealist path with his 1954 film, Senso, shot in colour.

Based on the novella by Camillo Boito, it is set in Austrian-occupied Venice in 1866.

In this film, Visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism.

However, as one biographer notes, " Visconti without neorealism is like Lang without expressionism and Eisenstein without formalism ".

He describes the film as the " most Viscontian " of all Visconti's films.

Visconti returned to neorealism once more with Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers, 1960 ), the story of Southern Italians who migrate to Milan hoping to find financial stability.