Rocco and His Brothers (Titanus-Films Marceau; Astor) is an interminable, sprawling, jerkily cut and overpraised melodrama (winner of 22 awards including the Venice Film Festival top prize for 1960) about the troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumviratealong with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums.
The association is largely a journalists' creation. Fellini, 41, and Antonioni, 48, are...
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