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| | The Missing Title Character |
 | | RANCESCO ROSI'S electrifying "Salvatore Giuliano" (1961), just released on DVD, is usually described as a political docudrama, but the movie, like its fugitive title character, is too elusive for labels. |
 | | In "Salvatore Giuliano" every small mystery breeds another, and then another, until, in the end, the mostly absent title character seems to be no more — and no less — than the sum of the questions we have about him: his ambiguity is his truth. |
 | | Once this lucid exposition is over, however, the story just gets blurrier and blurrier, as the film jumps backward and forward in time, forcing us with each abrupt temporal shift to adjust to a new set of characters and, in effect, a whole new political reality. |
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