Rocco and His Brothers
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Date: January 01, 1960 to December 31, 1960
Dates Note: 1960
Country of Origin:
France
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Italy
Place of Origin: Italy, France
Languages:
Italian
Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: Il ponte della Ghisolfa by Giovanni Testori
Additional Info:
Restored by Cineteca di Bologna in association with Titanus, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, and the Film Foundation. Restoration funding by Gucci and the Film Foundation.
Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and SplendorDescription:
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.
Description:
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 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.
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