Salvatore Giuliano (film)

Salvatore Giuliano
Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Screenplay by	Francesco Rosi Suso Cecchi d'Amico Enzo Provenzale Franco Solinas
Starring	Salvo Randone Frank Wolff
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Gianni Di Venanzo
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Production company	Lux Film Vides Cinematografica Galatea Film
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation
Release date	28 February 1962
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi. Shot in a neo-realist documentary, non-linear style, it follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano. Giuliano is mostly off-screen during the film and appears most notably as a corpse.

Derek Malcolm called it "almost certainly the best film about the social and political forces that have shaped [Sicily,] that benighted island." Gino Moliterno argued that "Rosi's highly original strategy in this landmark film is to aim at neither an "objective" journalistic documentary nor a fictional recreation but to employ as wide a range of disparate formal and stylistic elements as necessary to conduct a committed search for the truth that becomes, in a sense, its own narrative."

David Gurevich said that "Rosi marries the neo-realist, black-and-white, 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 you're back in the present only a few minutes after you're 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: it's 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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