An aristocrat with a Marxist heart, Luchino Visconti was a renaissance man of countless contradictions. Centering on the harsh realities of working-class lives, his early films spearheaded the Italian neorealism movement, which favored a naturalistic approach to acting as well as storytelling. Bellissima (1951) is an especially pivotal work in Visconti’s oeuvre, for it not only...