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FAMILY FEUD

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Visconti's

Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

This high-drama story of a family, mama and five sons, who come from the country to the city is frought with emotional conflict between the young, good Rocco and the older, pretty bad Simone.

Neorealism.

Their conflict over a woman (of easy virtue) frames the piece and we see all the other brothers and mother in relation to it.

The mother is great. A real Italian Mama; full force.

The very young Alain Delon is Rocco. Renato Salvatori is the older brother Simone.

The music is by Nino Rota!

This is a long film and sometimes Visconti drills the story into your teeth but it has some great parts to it.

It is a necessary stop on the tour of Italian cinema.

Visconti directed Delon in The Leopard which we enjoyed very much. We have also seen Ossession the first neorealistic movie (he invented the genré) and La terra trema.

I liked this movie and am glad that I saw it. I am not sure that I would want to endure it all again. I mean that in a good way.

That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films