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Spine 228: Salvatore Giuliano
Lost in Criterion
English - March 11, 2017 06:19 - 49 minutes - ★★★ - 42 ratingsTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With Salvatore Giuliano (1962) Francesco Rosi strove not just to make a biopic of the famed Sicilian outlaw, but to make a neo-realist docu-drama. Pat calls it a proto-History Channel special, and there's strong comparisons, but Rosi's film goes beyond that low bar. One because the film is simply so expertly shot, but also because unlike, say, Ancient Aliens, Rosi sought to only include the facts as he could verify them, ultimately, then, interrogating the official story and making a highly politically-charged thriller.