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Rocco and His Brothers

1960, Movie, 2h 58min

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.

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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Raw, energetic masterpiece bristling with well-measured tension.

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Critic Roger Ebert

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The experience of watching "Rocco and His Brothers" is rather overwhelming. So much happens, at such intensity and complexity, with such an outpouring of emotion, that we do feel we're witnessing an opera.

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Critic Peter Bradshaw

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Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic.

Read full review at The Guardian

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Rocco Parondi, a young man from a poor rural Italian family, moves to Milan with his mother and three brothers in search of a better life. But as they try to make their way in the industrial city's fast-paced and unforgiving world, family bonds are stretched to the breaking point. Simone struggles to find his place, drawn to the world of boxing but unable to escape the pull of his troubled past. Rocco finds love with a prostitute named Nadia but their relationship is threatened by Simone's jealousy and possessiveness. As tensions between the brothers escalate, tragedy looms on the horizon. Will the Parondi family be able to hold together or will the challenges of life in Milan tear them apart?

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