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Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Loot Price R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino
Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film
as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells
the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in
southern Italy, and forced to battle for existence in the
industrial metropolis of Milan. Though fascinated by the social
reality of modern Italy, Visconti had by this time thrown off the
influence of the neorealist movement. He had developed a style all
his own, enriched by his experience of directing opera for the
stage. As a result, the characters in Rocco are no longer held in
check by the naturalistic conventions of neorealism. Instead, they
erupt on the screen with all the emotional power of heightened
melodrama. The violent sexuality projected by stars Alain Delon,
Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale and the rest of Visconti's
impressive cast was too much for the Italian censors, who cut
several scenes. Rohdie discusses the film in terms of its
'passionate splendid realism', arguing that these two apparently
opposing moods are held in balance rather than contradiction in the
film, part of 'the very condition of the film's power - and grace.'
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