Reviews

everybody knows tornatore knows how to use the cameras. everybody knows monica bellucci is a beautiful woman. everybody knows Sicily offers enchanting landscapes. the sum of all this knowledge is not enough to see a good movie. the plot is a "deja vu". the theme of the story reminds of "malizia", an italian b movie of the seventies. monica bellucci is a widow just like in one of her first movies "la riffa". if you enjoy to look at beautiful women and well shot images, you'll love this movie. if you enjoy interesting and original plots you'll not. in the meantime, the music by ennio morricone, is wondrous.

A funeral is the first scene of this movie, just like in Godfather II and this is only the first of many quotations. The film tells the true story of the mobster Tano Guarrasi. However the story is just a pretext to depict Mafia in an absolutely new, irreverent, mocking way: you'll see "mafiosi" - ridiculous or very effeminate "mafiosi" - dancing and singing. The actors are unprofessional actors from Vucciria, Palermo's quarter where the true Tano Guarrasi lived. I love this movie because the idea - mafia in musical - is quite original.