What to expect
Visconti combines social observation with operatic family melodrama across a vast urban canvas. The brothers’ different responses to migration make solidarity, masculinity, labour, and violence parts of the same difficult inheritance.
How to ease in
This is a long film organised around the brothers. Keep Rocco, Simone, and Ciro distinct, and use the boxing world as the place where family need and individual ambition become hardest to separate.
Heads-up
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
The family arrives together, but Milan gives each brother a different clock. I feel tragedy grow whenever loyalty asks them to preserve the family by ignoring what one of its members has done.
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The family arrives together, but Milan gives each brother a different clock. I feel tragedy grow whenever loyalty asks them to preserve the family by ignoring what one of its members has done.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Alain Delon — Rocco Parondi · Annie Girardot · Renato Salvatori · Claudia Cardinale
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