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starring
ALAIN DELON THE COMPLETE, UNCUT VERSION!
"Stands with Senso and The Leopard
as one of
this majestic director's most enduring achievements!"
- Vincent Canby, New York Times
(1960) Joining the tragic exodus of millions from Italy's
impoverished south, the formidable matriarch of the Parondi
clan (Katina Paxinou, Best Supporting Oscar, For Whom the
Bell Tolls) and her brood emerge from Milan's looming Stazione
Centrale in search of a better life in the industrial north.
But, as they inch up the social ladder, family bonds are
ruthlessly shredded, as the love of Alain Delon's saintly
Rocco ("one of the most vivid and complex characters
in all of Visconti's work" - Vincent Canby) for prostitute
Annie Girardot drives brutish boxing sibling Renato Salvatori
to rape and murder.
Simultaneously a documentation of a changing society; a
kind of continuation of Visconti's classic La Terra Trema;
an evocation of the works of Sicilian titan Giovanni Verga,
Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, and Thomas Mann's Joseph and His
Brothers; and a visual tour de force as lensed by Giuseppe
Rotunno (The Leopard, 81/2, Amarcord, All That Jazz, etc.
etc.), Rocco rocketed Delon and Girardot to international
stardom and vaulted Visconti to his second triumvirate
- here with Antonioni and Fellini - at the cutting edge
of Italian filmmaking (his first, with Rossellini and DeSica,
in the heyday of neo-realism). The director's personal
favorite, Rocco's mix of realism and intense, operatic
emotion would profoundly influence the work of Coppola
and Scorsese.
"A masterpiece. A film of extraordinary range
and ambition...a great story beautifully told, effortlessly
tracking dozens of characters across a five-year span of
dense incidents."
-- Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune.
"Rocco has a sense of life being lived before
our eyes plus the rich detailing, the psychological insight
and the scope of a major novel...arguably [neo-realism's]
final great work."
-- L.A. Times.
A Milestone Films Release
Read A. O. Scott's review of ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS in the New York Times
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