Rocco and His Brothers

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Henry D @Henry_Domke Jun 12, 2026 An excellent family saga. This three-hour epic held our interest throughout and was very enjoyable, even though melodrama is not usually our cup of tea. The wide range of locations and sets gave the story depth, from cramped family interiors to boxing gyms and city streets. Each of the brothers was interesting in his own way, but the standout for us was Annie Girardot as the tragic girlfriend, bringing warmth, vulnerability, and sorrow to the center of the film. See more Leaburn O @RT35452347 Aug 8, 2021 A long film that never feels like it's dragging. The only downside is that things get kind of melodramatic occasionally but generally it's fairly enrapturing stuff as the plot unwinds, carried mainly by the live triangle between two brothers and a whore. Sadly Claudia Cardinale's role is marginal but wowzers I mean she's always next level beauty. See more Mar 11, 2021 A beautiful and captivating story of a family, which had to make its living in grim and hostile conditions of a new home. The performances of Delon and Salvatori are outstanding, though all the cast is superb. Despite its more than 2 hours length the movie just flies by, which marks the perfect direction by Visconti. See more dave s @RT68722908 Feb 26, 2021 In Luchino Visconti's sprawling Rocco and his Brothers, the Parondi family leave behind their rural roots to move to Milan, where the matriarch of the family hopes to give her five sons a better opportunity at success in life. It's a simple story at its core, but ambitious in the way it deals with loyalty within the family and the struggle to survive in what is essentially a foreign land. The black and white cinematography is striking at times and Visconti's staging is excellent. The only possible drawbacks are the length of the film and the overwrought final act, but these are minor complaints about an otherwise excellent film. See more William L @RT77267842 Dec 28, 2020 Rocco and His Brothers is certainly a sprawling and busy epic focusing on the working class of Italy in the '60s, and, from a more universial perspective, an exploration of the family structure, romance, and individuality as traditionally rural families found themselves pushed by circumstance into urban lifestyles. While it draws strength from its contemporary setting, the film just doesn't seem to be the masterpiece that everyone claims it to be, given its unnecessarily prolonged length and overreliance on melodrama; neither the love triangle plot that binds together the major narrative nor the characters involved are particularly strong, and many of the scenes are downright cheesy. Ambitious and intermittently successful, Visconti may be lauded as having contributed a major work to Italian Neorealism, but frankly I don't see it as a really compelling film. (3.5/5) See more Nov 1, 2020 Extraordinarily well acted and extremely captivating. Amazing performance by Delo. See more Read all reviews

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