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Streaming: Rocco and His Brothers
(Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
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featuringA masterpiece. . . . A film of extraordinary range and ambition, providing a detailed portrait of an entire social class.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou,
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“Fellini told the story of La dolce vita, the sweet life, but I instead will try to tell the story of the bitter life of people like Rocco” (Luchino Visconti). At once lyrical and brutal, this family saga is fatalist film noir expressed through a purity of vision; like the saintly Rocco (Alain Delon) himself, it takes a lot of violence to daunt Visconti’s love. Rocco is a character like Dostoyevsky’s Prince Mishkin, or Robert Bresson’s Balthazar. He is the anomaly among the five sons of a poor but canny widow (Katina Paxinou) who brings her family from the south to Milan, where they “arrive like an earthquake,” unprepared for the strains of urban living. The film develops in five episodes, one devoted to each brother, but the structure is as complex as their lives are intertwined.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Luchino Visconti
- Suso Cecchi d’Amico
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
- Massimo Franciosa
- Enrico Medioli
Based On
Il ponte della Ghisolfa by Giovanni Testori
Cinematographer
- Giuseppe Rotunno
Language
- Italian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- Digital streaming
- 177 mins
Source
- Milestone Films