The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
The winner of the 2014 European Film Award for Best European Comedy, this Italian box office hit follows the growing pains of Arturo, a Palermo boy whose life, from conception onwards, is impacted in dramatic ways by the operations of the Mafia. For a romantic comedy, it delivers a disconcertingly effective protest at Cosa Nostra domination of Sicilian life by portraying historic Mafia violence as idiotic. Its a bold big-screen debut for actor/director Pierfrancesco Pif Diliberto, a satirical current affairs broadcaster whose Italian TV profile is broadly comparable to Jon Stewarts in the US. Dilibertos film, a buoyant farce, chronicles two decades in the history of Palermo and the Cosa Nostra, lampooning the atrocities and hypocrisies of the Mob& Cleverly splicing himself into archival news footage and dramatizing a romance around the historical action, Diliberto has managed to make a political comedy that seems at once tremendously funny and intensely serious. Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Year: 2013
Genre: Comedy, Italian Cinema, Film Festivals 2015
Country: Italy
Director: Pierfrancesco Diliberto
Starring: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli
Duration: 87 Minutes
Rating: M - Violence, offensive language and sex scenes
Subtitles: Yes
Location in store: Foreign (Italy)
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