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Mafioso

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Original title

Mafioso

Year

1962

Running time

99 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Alberto Lattuada

Screenwriter

Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli. Story: Bruno Caruso

Cast

Music

Piero Piccioni

Cinematography

Armando Nannuzzi (B&W)

Producer

Compagnia Cinematografica Antonio Cervi, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematographica

Genre

Comedy | Comedy-Drama. Mafia. 1950s. Family Relationships

Synopsis

Antonio Badalamenti is a punctilious factory supervisor in Northern Italy who takes his wife (Norma Bengell) and their two adorable children to meet his family in Sicily. As vast meals are consumed and suspicious looks exchanged, Antonio sinks back into the rhythms and customs familiar from childhood. But then local bigwig Don Vincenzo (Ugo Attanasio) and his “people” call upon him to perform a certain service.

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Rankings Position

#73 Best Italian Movies of all time

Awards: 1963: San Sebastian Film Festival: Golden Shell (Best Film)

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Critics' reviews

"A small comic masterpiece that dares to deal with that of which many Sicilians dare not speak: the Mafia."

TV Guide
"Lattuada has adapted a gritty neorealist style to suit his dark comedy and is in full command in the final half hour, when he ups the ante in surprising ways."

G. Allen Johnson: San Francisco Chronicle
"Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over 'The Godfather.' It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster"

Owen Gleiberman: Variety
"Filmed in a hot and bleached black-and-white, it manages to swerve from culture-clashing farce to alarming suspense without losing control."

Anthony Lane: The New Yorker
"The movie is at once a giddy mixture of farce, satire and opera buffa and a closely observed drama of social dislocation and cultural confusion."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Mafioso may have been made in another era, but it stands as a classy, even radical rebuke to the film school posers who keep recycling the same tired gangster tropes."

Ann Hornaday: The Washington Post

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