Salvatore Giuliano details
| Format: | TBC DVD |
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| Starring: | Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff |
| Director: | Francesco Rosi |
| Genres: | Drama - Crime, Historical, World Cinema - Italian |
| Name | Discs | |
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Salvatore Giuliano |
TBC Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 3 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not currently released |
| Main languages: | Italian |
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An absolutely stunning film
By Gaspe from Croydon , 30 Sep 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
This is a film that demands to be seen over and over. The filming is dramatic and exciting, the editing superbly adds to the tension of the story, and one is left feeling that this really is how power in Italy, and the world, functions. I bought this film in a 2 DVD set so cannot tell what the Screen select version has on it, but the commentary from Peter Cowie is incisive and highly illuminating. Finally a few words about the acting. It boggles the mind to think that this was made in Sicily only 10 years after the events it portrays, in the same places where they happen with the same local people playing parts in the film. Rosi proves what a remarkable director he is by coaxing out of non-actors such gripping performances. The film still resonates today, both in the Sicilian context but also the comparison with the Iraq invasion comes to mind often. When Halliwell's say 'Undoubtedly a local classic, but not an easy film to appreciate', they are hopelessly wrong on both scores.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)An absolutely stunning film
By Gaspe from Croydon , 30 Sep 2006This is a film that demands to be seen over and over. The filming is dramatic and exciting, and the editing superbly adds to the tension of the story and one is left feeling that this really is how power in Italy (and the world) functions, as the incisive and highly illuminating commentary from Peter Cowie puts it. It boggles the mind to think that this was made in Sicily only 10 years after the events it portrays, in the same places where they occurred with the same local people playing parts in the film. Rosi proves what a remarkable director he is by coaxing such gripping performances out of non-actors. The scenes with the mother of Giuliano weeping over his dead body in the morgue (especially when you hear Rosi describe how the scene was shot), and when the women of Montelepre attack the troops as their menfolk are arrested are as extraordinary as any I've seen in a fiction film. The film still resonates today, both in the Sicilian context but also the comparison with the Iraq invasion comes to mind. When Halliwell's say 'Undoubtedly a local classic, but not an easy film to appreciate', they are hopelessly wrong on both scores.- Was this review helpful to you?
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An absolutely stunning film
By Gaspe from Croydon , 30 Sep 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
This is a film that demands to be seen over and over. The filming is dramatic and exciting, the editing superbly adds to the tension of the story, and one is left feeling that this really is how power in Italy, and the world, functions. I bought this film in a 2 DVD set so cannot tell what the Screen select version has on it, but the commentary from Peter Cowie is incisive and highly illuminating. Finally a few words about the acting. It boggles the mind to think that this was made in Sicily only 10 years after the events it portrays, in the same places where they happen with the same local people playing parts in the film. Rosi proves what a remarkable director he is by coaxing out of non-actors such gripping performances. The film still resonates today, both in the Sicilian context but also the comparison with the Iraq invasion comes to mind often. When Halliwell's say 'Undoubtedly a local classic, but not an easy film to appreciate', they are hopelessly wrong on both scores.- Was this review helpful to you?
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