Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: 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. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "Rocco and His Brothers" is a film both authentic and ambitious, a classic that is as adept at telling individual stories as it is in drawing larger parallels from them. Read more

Pauline Kael, New Yorker: Visconti's methods are still partly neorealist, but the scale of the film is huge and operatic, and it loses the intimacy of the best neorealist films, and their breath of life. Read more

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David Ehrlich, Time Out: Today, distanced from ridiculous controversy and dislocated from the provincial politics that drive its story, this immaculately restored classic of post-WWII Italian cinema often feels like a new experience altogether. Read more

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Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: The Parondis' lives are difficult but gorgeous; boxing is terrible but riveting; the city offers everything even as it takes everything away. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Turgid, overwrought, yet still profoundly affecting. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A richly textured drama, resoundingly alive with characters. Read more