Three Brothers
by Francesco Rosi
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Actor: Andréa Ferréol, Maddalena Crippa, Michele Placido, Philippe Noiret, Vittorio MezzogiornoDirector: Francesco Rosi
Brand: Facets Multimedia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: FACETS
Movie Reviews of Three Brothers
Movie Review: AMERICAN MOVIES WILL NEVER BE THIS GOOD
Summary: 5 Stars
I luckily discovered a copy of this excellent film in a discount bin in Mexico, with Spanish subtitles. The DVD compression is excellent and represents the full vision. The Spanish subtitles faithfully and fully follow the dialogue, which is poignant and profound and powerful.
We should be so lucky one day to produce a culture capable of producing a film such as this one, full of the parallax of multiple viewpoints of life, as full as James Joyce`s Ulysses or Kurasawa`s Roshamon in its multiple parallax, each viewpoint presented with its own validation and reality, across several generations. Especially moving are the recollections of the old man, and amazing flashbacks to his youth, and how the farm has fallen from wartime with its barnful of cattle to the present barnful of doves, as the sons have left and no one cares for the farm.
Amazing display of all classes of life in Italy of the time, from the judge to the terrorist brothers, with an intellectual dissection of each. It is a special joy to see Noiret as a younger man in his prime and free to perform without the restrictions of the British director of Il Postino later in his remarkable career.
This movie is one of those which build on you intensely, until the final image which rips your heart away and which feels like it comes way to soon. You want to see more, especially in sincere concern for the well being of the free-spirited grand-daughter. Or perhaps our post-Jocko generation unfailingly reads the wrong message into even a fully clothed adult sharing a bed with a child. Nevertheless, this movie permits a symbolic reading as well as the superficially visual. Notice the grand-daughter's early play with the pigeons, like the young Virgin MAry and the dove, her play unclothed in the dry corn in a garret above the bedroom where the grandmother lies in state, her spirit rising with the keening prayer to join the reborn girl above, her discovery of the egg, etc., her accompanying hand in hand of the grandfather, etc., and we see her take on the role of the grandmother, across the generations. Please watch this carefully and thoughtfully. Think it over. I realize our domestic films do not permit this kind of reflection anymore, but watch this again.
From the first moments you realize you are watching safely and securely a superior film which will not fail you on any level, which will fulfill any critical criteria and carry you away in its message and action. Do not fail to see it. It does withstand and reward repeated viewing.
I can show you the discount bin where I discovered it. Or here on the mighty amazon with unfortunately English subtitles for which I can give no comment nor guarantee as I have not seen them.
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