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...rose suddenly and began to pace as he described his student days at the Centro Sperimentale, a government subsidized school for filmmakers. It was there that he met Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni and all the other men who now dominate the Italian film industry...
July, Boys. Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) directed German Actress Romy Schneider as the wife of a titled amorist who goes for $1,000-a-night call girls and has a bottomless exchequer to assure his supply. His wife decides to leave him, but tells him dryly that he can have her any time he wants her for $600 (she discounts the madam's $400 cut). The segment ends with the wife sadly undressing as the husband pantingly writes out a check...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS. The third important film produced by the Italian rinascinemento (cinema renaissance) of 1960-61. Director Luchino Visconti's monumental (2 hr. 29 min.) investigation of what happens (rape, murder, homosexuality) to a poor family when it moves from a village to Milan...
Technically, Rocco approaches the greatest Italian films, especially as the camera concentrates on the faces of the actors, never letting one forget that this is a human drams. Each individual performance conveys this sense of inescapable humanity, and in Visconti's bringing them together, he makes for us a whole far greater than the sum of its parts...
There lacks space to describe the subtle touches which Visconti employs to weave in his other ideas about city and country, and human desire. But indications of his understanding good and evil in one vision such as Vincenzo's benefitting from urban life reveal his faithfulness to his conception of truth...