Title: La Mafia Uccide Solo D’Estate (The Mafia Only Kills In Summer)
Director: Pierfrancesco Diliberto “Pif”
Starring: Pif, Cristiana Capotondi, Alex Bisconti, Ginevra Antona, Ninni Bruschetta, Claudio Gioè.
“Pif” aka Pierfrancesco Diliberto, is an Italian television host and writer, who has established himself through the years on MTV, confronting serious topics with a touch of comedy. His directorial debut, leads him back to his land of origin: Sicily.
Through ‘La Mafia Uccide Solo D’Estate’ (The Mafia Only Kills In Summer), Pif creates an original crime comedy that retraces the crucial moments in history of the most famous organised crime association, that he intertwines with a fictional autobiography to perk up the account of the frightful mob homicides.
Let the narration begin with the strong remembrances of Arturo, a goofy man who recalls the encounter with his childhood sweetheart, Flora, and the struggle it took throughout adulthood to conquer her heart. Let this young unusual Sicilian gentle-lad be totally engrossed – with naivety – by the declarations of the most discussed politician in Italian history: Giulio Andreotti. Let him pursue the career of truth-seeker through journalism. Let the time and place of his coming-to-age coincide with the budding of the most criminal acts and condemnations of the Mafia…and what you obtain is an excellent dark mob comedy.
This movie will amuse and also touch the hearts of all those who have heard the names of the famous Mafia leaders, such as Totò Riina or Leoluca Bagarella and the victims of this organisation like judge Rocco Chinnici, General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa; not to mention Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the two most prominent emblems of anti-mafia magistrates, who were savagely assassinated because of their State battle against the Mafia. Two heroes, who were named as heroes of the last 60 years in the November 13, 2006, issue of Time Magazine.
Technical: B-
Acting: B-
Story: B+
Overall: B
Written by: Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
