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Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco e i suoi fratelli

1960

Luchino Visconti

Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou ...

8.2

10,885

Drama It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he and his three brothers set out to Milan in an attempt to improve their lives. There they find Vincenzo, the eldest brother, who works as a construction worker.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A kind of emotional fullness and revelation that one finds in the great tragedies of the Greeks"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Luchino Visconti was a man of many tempers, styles and beliefs, and you can see them all, fighting for space, on the epic canvas of his masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A disturbing, despairing epic of the soul (...) a film both authentic and ambitious, a classic that is as adept at telling individual stories as it is in drawing larger parallels from them."	POS
United States	Variety	"Scripting shows numerous hands at work, yet all is pulled together by Visconti’s dynamic and generally tasteful direction."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The scale of the film is huge and operatic, and it loses the intimacy of the best neorealist films, and their breath of life."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Raw, energetic masterpiece bristling with well-measured tension (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"As a moving picture, though, it remains one of the greats"	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"Luchino Visconti’s film is vital about violence being bred from systemic blind spots, where miniscule souls are tasked with the impossible (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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