Rocco and His Brothers
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Movie Reviews of Rocco and His Brothers
Movie Review: What movie did the other reviewers watch?
Summary: 5 Stars
Luchino Visconti is a master of the epic, however, his epic style always takes place within a family and always leads downward towards an inevitable doom. His movies tends to remind us of the 'Godfather' but Visconti, dare I say, even gets closer to the marrow of the issues than Coppola does at his best (I am nevertheless, a big fan of 'the Godfather'). To Visconti the finest details of a film are of the utmost importance - you can watch a film like 'Rocco' or the 'Leopard' several times and still miss things. Visconti's cinema is one which reveals itself in every character, in every piece of furniture, in every moment.
'Rocco and his Brothers' is if not my favorite Italian film - certainly one of the top ten. To see the brilliant camera work of Giussepe Rotuno combined with Visconti at his peak is simply magnificent. The film itself is extremely radical in structure - slowly revealing itself - focusing sometimes on what appear to be small conversations - but everything is woven to make a perfect whole - wherein the seams are all neat - and though at times are barely hanging together - it always holds as if there is some greater purpose in mind. Visconti reveals much about both the family and their society. One could be bold and comment that the whole film is about fighting to survive (sometimes fighting one another). Life - sometimes- is like a boxing match but the match is sometimes not the one you choose to fight - you are thrown into it and some of the factors working for or against you are money, pride, love, and family.
Movie Review: Another jeweled film of Luchino Visconti!
Summary: 5 Stars
If the Neo Realism was born with a forgotten film of 1934 named Tony directed by Jean Renoir, you can read frequently that Roberto Roselini has been designed as his Italian father. In these terms, if we assume the cycle initiates with Paisa (1945), Roma cittá apperta and Germania Anno Zero, Vittorio De Sica would follow the traces, many people tend to forget a hidden film of Visconti dated in 1943 -Ossesione- , and best known as "The postman always rings twice."
In this sense Visconti knocked the door before Roselini, and his brilliant career, during three decades until The innocent in 1976 that would constitute his Final Opus..
Rocco is a powerful, magisterial and still actualized film about the life and illusions of Rocco trying to bring back his family the lost dignity. Somehow the striking performance of Alain Delon in this movie meant for him his leap to fame, after his shining acting in Purple Noon 1959.
To talk about the art and influence of Luchino Visconti, his slender camera traveling and expressive close ups woul surpass the limits of this brief comment.
Go for this superb gem of the Italian Realism in those painful years of the Post War.
Movie Review: What the Italian family is all about
Summary: 5 Stars
(My copy is a Region 2, European version). A masterpiece by Italian director Lucino Visconti. Intense, emotional, realistic, passionate, dramatic story of an Italian family from the poor south (Lucania) who immigrates to the northern city of Napoli.
A 3-hour film that, alternatively, focuses on each one of the sons of the 'mamma'. If "Il Gattopardo" was the drama of the aristocratic Italian family from the south, this one corresponds to the poor family also from the south. Both are cinematic gems, worthy of being included among the best in film history. Although a long film, its intensity never diminishes. Every shot is full of emotion and meaningful and beautiful.
The only thing that disappointed me a little was the way it ended, the last half-hour. It's more of an open ending, no conclusion.
One of the most gorgeous films in b/w that I've seen. Italy to the bones.
Movie Review: Fingers on a Hand
Summary: 5 Stars
Beautiful, brilliant, and brutal! A universal tale of man and his environment. This film can be viewed as a social commentary of Southern versus Northern Italy and five different adaptations to modernization. The five brothers are compared to the five fingers on a hand ~ joined, yet each posits alternatives to existence. Structurally, this is shown in the films chapters devoted to each son. Vincenzo elects the petit-bourgeouis mileu; Simone, the brother with initial promise, maladapts, descending to animalism; Rocco chooses sacrifice, holding steadfast to the family clan and nostalgia; Ciro reveals integration within Milanese society; and, finally, Luca offers promise. Visconti masterfully builds tension and characterization with the cinematic details of lighting, music, and montage.Movie Review: A GREAT MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
A great, great, great movie! That's all I can say!I never see a movie so well acted, directed and edited.
After I turned off the TV, I could still see Rocco's eyes-
beautiful, but full with pain and hope. Only the great Alain
Delon have such beautiful and expressive eyes!I heard that
Visconti couldn't find a suitable actor in the bigining but
when he saw Alain Delon accidentally, he shouted "he is Rocco!"