The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barocco \Ba*roc"co\, a. [It.] (Arch.) See Baroque.
Wikipedia
Barocco is a 1976 French romantic thriller film, directed by André Téchiné. The film stars Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu and Marie-France Pisier. Identity, redemption and resurrection are the themes of the film. The plot follows a young woman who convinces her boxer boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she is racked with guilt until she meets the killer and plans to remake him into the image of her slain lover. The film won three César Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography and Best Music. The film had a total of 678,734 admissions in France.
Usage examples of "barocco".
The heads both of the Adam and the Eve have been less successfully repainted than the rest of the figures, and have suffered somewhat in consequence, but the reader will note the freedom from any approach to barocco maintained throughout the work.
The frescoes are of the usual drop scene, barocco, academic kind, but where the damp has spared them they form an effective background.
The stronger a man is the more certainly will he be modified by his own times as well as modify them, and in an age of barocco we must not look for Donatellos.
These are many of them portraits full of serious dignity and unspotted by the world of barocco with which Tabachetti was surrounded.
And the band played the barocco music on the barocco little piazza and we were all barocco together.
The heads both of the Adam and the Eve have been less successfully repainted than the rest of the figures, and have suffered somewhat in consequence, but the reader will note the freedom from any approach to barocco maintained throughout the work.
Al contrario, sono stato etichettato come grottesco, barocco, romantico, surreale, eccessivo, gonfiato, svanito, pazzo e, naturalmente, benché non l'avessi voluto ammettere con Belinda, molta gente m'ha definito sinistro ed erotico.