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Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

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This is a documentary-style Italian drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily. Salvatore Giuliano himself is almost unseen and his career is recalled in flashbacks after his assassination in 1950. With the help of his right-hand man and cousin Gaspare Pisciotta (Frank Wolff), Salvatore becomes a guerilla leader whose resistance to the corrupt politicians dominating his post-war nation leads to his popularity

Feb 24, 2004

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This is arguably as good as or better than anything Rosi has done since.

March 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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An outstanding film has been fashioned by Francesco Rosi using the story of Sicilian bandit Giuliano as a pretext for a historical, political, and social document of its times.

March 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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Stunningly shot in stark black-and-white by Gianni Di Venanzo.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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There are no actors acting in "Salvatore Giuliano," only people living and dying for what they believe.

August 18, 2010 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
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This was the groundbreaking political film of director Francesco Rosi.

October 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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The political, historical, and social references are not always clear, which can be distracting, yet this still works and works well.

March 26, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Rosi is cinema.

June 1, 2007
ColeSmithey.com

Rosi adopts an austere structure with a complex timeframe that provocatively avoids narrative embellishment and the usual emotional padding.

December 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmjourney

If you want a true insight into the workings of a Mob ruler, this is really the one to watch.

March 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Film4
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Rosi extended neorealism and made it his own by marrying the realist aesthetic to the exposure of power dynamics

March 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk
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Audience Reviews for Salvatore Giuliano

"Salvatore Giuliano" starts on July 5, 1950, just after Salvatore Giuliano(Pietro Cammarata) has been murdered. There is differing testimony from the eyewitnesses that not only contradicts the police account but each other. Five years previously, in the wake of the end of World War II, Sicily is on the verge of proclaiming its independence.(I had never heard of this before but it makes sense considering the cultural differences between Sicily and the mainland.) The leaders of the indpendence movement enlist bandits to the cause, giving Giuliano a field commission of colonel and a provisional amnesty.

"Salvatore Giuliano" is for the most part a riveting docudrama about the legendary independence fighter and bandit, the movie spending a good deal of thought wondering about the difference between the two. Throughout, Giuliano is protrayed as a shadowy figure, mostly known by his distinctive white duster as the police and army try more restrictive methods with each successful strike in order to try and stop him and his bandits which in turn just alienates the native populace. And director Francesco Rosi shows a fine touch with the natural locations and crowd scenes. However, the movie almost falls apart at the end due to a marathon court session that instead of resolving the central mystery, just manages to confuse things even further.
November 26, 2009
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I am half Sicilian by blood, so anything to do with Sicilian heritage, as far as movies go, I will watch. This was a complete bore though. As an American, I probably just can't grasp the drama of it. But to me it was boring. Long and drawn out with a complete bore of an ending. Interesting since it is a period piece made in Italy. But cinematically, I have to say it is very lacking.
September 13, 2007
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