Here Comes the Calvary
An appropriate image for Easter.
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, on Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema, reviewed by me for Electric Sheep. And like a fool, I’d never seen it.
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March 26, 2016 at 2:11 pm
It’s a masterpiece. Renato Salvatore is amazing. His climactic scene with Annie Girardot was paid homage to by Fassbinder in Berlin Alexanderplatz. The cathedral on whose roof a key scene takes place was built by Visconti’s ancestors.
March 27, 2016 at 12:15 am
I was trying to figure out if the high angle God shot at the end of that cathedral scene would have been inspired by Hitchcock and North by Northwest (fleeing the UN) and I decided it would.
March 27, 2016 at 1:57 pm
I’m not so sure about that. I find nothing Hollywood in Visconti — even in those films where one might expect it to seep in (Osessione, Death in Venice) I expect the angle is derived from Renaissance painting.
March 27, 2016 at 2:24 pm
Well, there’s Brueghels’ falling Icarus, but this focus on a single figure running from the scene, the intense focus on interest on a tiny moving part in an angle that explicitly seems to evoke God’s POV, seems very Hitchcockian.
Agree that generally Visconti is quite un-Hollywood. Ossessione is not The Postman Always Rings Twice.