The Rossellinis

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The Rossellinis

2020

1h 38m

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Roberto Rossellini was Italian Neorealism’s most renowned film director and the father of a cosmopolitan, nonconformist and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars, a daughter who converted to Islam and even someone who chose to live on a desert island. It also includes Alessandro, once a photographer with an erratic career and a recovering drug addict. As the grandson of a genius, he feels that he has not lived up to expectations and is convinced that his relatives all feel the weight of the same burden: not rising to the levels that the famous Rossellini surname requires. At the age of 56, he decides to take on the challenge, as well as to improve his precarious finances, by making this film, forcing everyone to undergo family therapy under the scrutiny of an unforgiving lens.

Guy Lodge

Variety

Intriguing, even if the younger Rossellini's techniques as both a filmmaker and an interviewer border on gauche.

May 4, 2021

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Shane Slater

Awards Radar

The Rossellinis is definitely worth seeing for its engaging attempt at personal and familial reconciliation.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 30, 2021

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Stephen Silver

Tilt Magazine

Fans of 20th century world cinema, and of dysfunctional families, will love this examination of the complicated family life of the Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, directed by his grandson

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 1, 2021

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

The Rossellini family is a gift to filmmakers.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 17, 2021

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Sydney Urbanek

The Spool

THE ROSSELLINIS works as both an unlikely love letter to the Rossellini family and an explainer for the rest of us, anchored by that highly relatable desire to understand what exactly is in one's name.

May 11, 2021

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Lanfranco C

A well articulated story of a famous and complex family.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/04/24

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Roberto Rossellini was Italian Neorealism’s most renowned film director and the father of a cosmopolitan, nonconformist and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars, a daughter who converted to Islam and even someone who chose to live on a desert island. It also includes Alessandro, once a photographer with an erratic career and a recovering drug addict. As the grandson of a genius, he feels that he has not lived up to expectations and is convinced that his relatives all feel the weight of the same burden: not rising to the levels that the famous Rossellini surname requires. At the age of 56, he decides to take on the challenge, as well as to improve his precarious finances, by making this film, forcing everyone to undergo family therapy under the scrutiny of an unforgiving lens.

Director: Alessandro Rossellini
Producer: Maria Teresa Tringali
Screenwriter: Alessandro Rossellini, Andrea Paolo Massara, Davis Simanis
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Italian
Runtime: 1h 38m