Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
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What critics compared Rocco and His Brothers to
If there are traces of Visconti here, they refer not to “The Damned,” which belabored a grand and screwed-up family as it slid into the clutches of Nazism, but to an earlier, more pitying film like “Rocco and His Brothers,” in which lust chewed up another family in a doomy Milan.
Though the tenderly handsome Nightcrawler star naturally looks about as much of a boxer as baby-faced Alain Delon in Rocco and His Brothers — which is to say, not at all — here the former Donnie Darko has been transformed into a tattooed, muscle-bound, raging bull gladiator.