The story of a southern Italian peasant family's journey and relocation to the big city... is just superb film making..The deterioration of the brothers relationship is almost pure GreeK Tragedy (there is a glimmer of hope with the youngest brother)...superbly acted especially by Renato Salvatori, as Simon, the most troubled of all the fratelli, and young, beautiful, Alain Delon as the younger brother Rocco who desperately tries to save his brother from destruction; and Annie Giradot, as Nadia the prostitute who adds to this families woes is just sensational in a role that should have won her all kinds of trophies.
Drama | In Italian with English subtitles | 135 minutes. Also, both films display stunningly black and white photography. Terrific Epic Scale Family Drama, Visconti's Best! This can be said about ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI by Count Visconti, a film considered not only by its director to be his best one but still appreciated by lots of viewers worldwide. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. Not much, since I fell asleep for a significant portion of it. | In 2001 i saw this film for the first time and it seems it could be done in our days. 40-page booklet featuring archival imagery, articles by Luchino Visconti and critic Guido Aristarco, and a rare interview with Visconti translated into English for the first time. Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro, Enrico Medioli, Giovanni Testori, Luchino Visconti, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Not the best restoration of this Masterpiece, Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018. I was not looking forward to this film. One of Alain Delon's earlier movies. and, sure, one of wonderful roles of Alain Delon. The expectation is that Vincenzo has arranged for his in-laws to put his mother and siblings up until they can obtain permanent lodging. Two documentaries – TF1’s Les Coulisses du tournage, and RAI’s hour-long Luchino Visconti. The triple threat Visconti (producer, co-screenwriter, director) pours all his passion in this epic tale of widowed Katina Paxinou leaving her poverty filled life in Southern Italy with family in tow for the big city life of Milan, hoping to better the life of her five sons, Rocco (Alan Delon), Simone (Renato Salvatori), Ciro (Max Cartier), Moroni (RogerHanin) and her youngest boy of 7. This is certainly a legendary movie. A must see film. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Arriving poor and clueless this blank canvass awaits the Visconti wash. I also would like to know which language do some characters spoke on stage(I think it's french), namely Rocco and Ginetta. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present one of Visconti’s most revered films — winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1960 — restored to its original Italian-language three-hour form — for the first time in the world on Blu-ray. Rivette. The original soundtrack has them both overdubbed by Italian actors. The handling of the incredible climax is superb and harrowing, juxtaposing apparent victory with the terrible cost to the individual ★★★★” – Cine-Vue. Gradually they become embroiled in the big city, some becoming corrupted by its ways, others profiting. Claudia Cardinale made some kind of Italian debut in this film. He tries to borrow money from a friend by hocking his watch…. In the end, the three older brothers cannot deal with the move from the pastoral life of their youth. I feel that this is just as much about his brothers as it is about Rocco. "Rocco and ..." is intensely played by the entire cast, including a young and delicate Alain Delon as the idealistic Rocco, an exquisite Annie Girardot as a prostitute trying to survive to her own hell and a terrific Renato Salvatori. This has unfortunately had the side-effect of creating a monster of a melodrama called "The Godfather" which became an ode to violence and organized crime and a boxing-themed film like "Raging Bull" which further contributed to lower the bar of graphic violence on the screen. Rocco was first movie by him who I saw it. Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone. However, you will need an all zones player. Rocco covers these bases, and then some. or was it a flaw? I had liked Valli and Farley Granger in other films, but they both seemed profoundly out of place in that film. ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS is a crime drama about the struggle of a poor Italian family from the South with an unknown and "modern" city life.
But, many poor critics have mistakenly called the film a 'tragedy,' when it clearly is not, for a tragedy demands a sense of grandeur or greatness, and there are no such people in this film. My history with Luchino Visconti promised an awful evening. Visconti at his peak. Needless to say trouble and high operatic drama follows that finally ends in tragedy that never fails to leave me in tears. They dream with a new life at the industrial pole of the north. Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014. The destruction of a family order, jealousy, betrayal between brothers and the saintliness of Rocco, always ready to forgive, thinking more about his family than himself. Drama | In Italian with English subtitles | 135 minutes. The plot is simple, a poor family headed by the mother moves to the big city to try to make a better life for her and her sons. Both soapy & operatic, this is one of the great films of the 60's & one of Visconti's best. Neither DVD contains any special features of note. Chabrol.
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