Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatore, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Claudia Cardinale. An Italian family consisting of a mother and five brothers migrates from the south of Italy to Milan, in the north. Rocco (Delon) and his brother Simone get in a fight over a girl (Cardinale), and Simone acts in a beastly manner toward his brother. Although this film plays with heavy themes of sibling rivalry and even murder, it impressed me as an overwrought soap opera without gravitas. Plus, it's almost three hours long. In Italian, with English subtitles. Grade: B