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02/09/06
Rocco & His Brothers (1960)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 15 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 55 mins
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti's (DEATH IN VENICE) powerful epic is one of the most internationally adored Italian films in history. The story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS stars the gorgeous French actor Alain Delon as Rocco, a soft-spoken,... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Luchino Visconti
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1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Apesar de ser mais longo do que deveria e de se entregar ao melodrama ocasional, o filme praticamente se transforma em um épico familiar e conta com performances enérgicas e inesquecíveis (especialmente de Salvatori e Girardot).
10/13/03
There is in this strong and surging drama of an Italian peasant family's shattering fate in the face of the brutalizing forces of unfamiliar modern city life a kind of emotional fullness and revelation that one finds in the great tragedies of the Greeks.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Visconti returns to Milan, the city of his birth, in this story about the politics of class involved in the move to the big city of a family of impoverished southerners.
03/10/03
Visconti's greatest achievement is how he mixes realism and melodrama.
01/27/03
Even with [Rocco's] undeniable excess, the climactic moments transcend style and are profoundly moving.
01/15/03
Beneath the neorealist façade simmers an intensity that is far more lurid and operatic in nature.
08/20/02
Neither neo-realist nor particularly artsy, Rocco might make for a fat, satisfying beach-read of a movie if only it weren't so convinced of its own magnitude.
07/02/02
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