Franco Maresco’s documentary is a sequel of sorts to his 2014 title ‘Belluscone’
Italian sales agent Fandango has taken international rights to Franco Maresco’s Venice Competition documentary Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be.
The film marks Maresco’s return to the Lido following his 2014 documentary Belluscone (a Sicilian slang name for former disgraced prime minister Silvio Berlusconi) which screened in Horizons.
Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be is a sequel of sorts to Belluscone, combining bringing together some of the characters from that film with the work of renowned Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia.
The documentary...
Italian sales agent Fandango has taken international rights to Franco Maresco’s Venice Competition documentary Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be.
The film marks Maresco’s return to the Lido following his 2014 documentary Belluscone (a Sicilian slang name for former disgraced prime minister Silvio Berlusconi) which screened in Horizons.
Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be is a sequel of sorts to Belluscone, combining bringing together some of the characters from that film with the work of renowned Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia.
The documentary...
- 7/31/2019
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
The director of Belluscone. Una storia siciliana returns to the Venice Film Festival, competing with his new film which features a cast led by Letizia Battaglia and Ciccio Mira. “A new chapter of Maresco’s anthropological study of Palermo and Sicily; a work which sets itself apart through its capacity to provoke and which doesn’t stint on grotesque and exhilarating twists and turns”. These are the words used by the director Alberto Barbera to describe La mafia non è più quella di una volta, the new film by Franco Maresco due to be presented in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival (28 August – 7 September). Leading the cast of the title - which is produced by Rean Mazzone on behalf of Ila Palma Dream Film and Tramp Lmd, and which is co-financed by the Sicilian Region - are photographer Letizia Battaglia and Ciccio Mira, the neomelodic music impresario who...
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