Salvatore Giuliano (film)

Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi. Shot in a neorealist documentary, nonlinear style, it follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano. Giuliano is mostly offscreen during the film and appears most notably as a corpse.

David Gurevich said that Rosi marries the neorealist, blackandwhite, populist aesthetic to the mad media circus of La Dolce Vita, tosses in some minimalist alienation from Antonioni, makes the film jump back and forth in time without any markers so that you realize youre back in the present only a few minutes after youre already in a sequence, and makes his despair so infectious that we would probably be disappointed to know the truth. Terrence Rafferty noted that Salvatore Giuliano manages to sustain an almost impossible balance of immediacy and reflection its such an exciting piece of filmmaking that you might not realize until the end that its dominant tone is contemplative, even melancholy.Director Martin Scorsese listed Salvatore Giuliano as one of his twelve favorite films of all time. ........

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