Rocco e i suoi fratelli / The Daytrippers / Copie conforme

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) ★★★★★

The word "operatic" is often overused, but no other would apply to Rocco and His Brothers. It is a combination that should not work, but does, between operatic melodrama and seamy social realism, which at no point in its 177-minute running time seem to clash, although they should. We buy the whole overwrought package, the quiet truth, the flamboyant excess, even the undercurrent of homoeroticism that Visconti never quite reconciles. The excitement of the film is that so much is happening, in so many different ways, all struggling to find a fusion. Rocco and His Brothers can be seen quite clearly, at this point, as an enormous influence on great American gangster films. Aspects of "The Godfather" immediately come into mind.
-Robert Egbert



The narrator on the trailer is referring to the events that took place while shooting the film. The film was seized and Visconti asked to delete the scenes showing Nadia's rape and murder.

The Daytrippers (1996) ★★★

This deliberately claustrophobic film could easily be described as an anti-road movie. Mottola squeezes his five main characters into one car, sets them on the Long Island expressway and then charts the emotional disintegration of this particular nuclear family.
-TotalFilm



Copie conforme (2010) ★★

In its very strangeness, and unworldliness, and utter unreality, Certified Copy has a species of charm. It is an intensely composed and choreographed film in its way, unmistakably an example of Kiarostami's compositional technique, though not a successful example. It may go down as the strangest "meet-cute" in the history of cinema.
-Peter Bradshaw