ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Genre
Drama, Romance
Language
VOSTA
Duration
177
Rating
About
LUCHINO VISCONTI RETROSPECTIVE
Presented in collaboration with Ciné-histoire.
Double feature | May 31:
- BELLISSIMA — 11:30 AM
- ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS — 3:00 PM
Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti. With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno’s glimmering, on-location cinematography, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS “represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism,” says A.O. Scott of the “New York Times.” Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes—modernity, class tension, familial discord—across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. (criterion)
Directed by
Luchino Visconti
Actors
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro
Country
Italy, France
Version
Original w/English subtitles
Release year
1960