Rocco and His Brothers - Sam Rohdie (BFI Film Classics)

'Rocco and His Brothers' by Sam Rohdie

Luchino Visconti's 1960 film is an epic of urban life following a family of Southern Italian peasants uprooted from their village to the metropolis of Milan. Rohdie examines how Visconti introduced a heightened passionate sensibility to neorealism creating something new.