Word: ecco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...