Benito Mussolini – what a fascist!
And I’m not talking only about his political ideology, writes Gerald Loftus.
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Rebel with a cause Marco Amenta’s La siciliana ribelle (2009) tells the true tale of Rita Atria (Veronica D’Agostino), the 17-year-old daughter of a slain Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss and sister to his dead son, who in 1991 broke ‘the Family’s’ sacred code of omertà (silence) and aided anti-Mafia police with their investigations. Gérard Jugnot plays [...] Berlusconi, gently skewered Nanni Moretti (The Last Customer (2003), La stanza del figlio (2001)), a cult director in Italy, brings a unique perspective to this take on ‘Il Caimano’, the second-longest serving prime minister in the country’s history (1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, 2008 onwards). What is fascinating is how Berlusconi’s story goes hand in hand [...] Summer’s wine Gerald Loftus offers his view on an Italian treat… To grieve alone? In this affecting, involving and occasionally harrowing examination of how grief can throw the mind off kilter, by renowned Italian director Antonello Grimaldi (Un Delitto impossibile (2001)), widower Pietro Paladini (actor/director Nanni Moretti) is spending his post-bereavement days on a bench in front of his daughter’s primary school. The story recalls Moretti’s own [...] [photopress:gomorra.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Death is a dirty business In terms of cinematic markers for the Mafia, Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) has now maintained a generational hold over public perceptions of the world of organized crime and its associated values of honour, family and tradition, which almost ennoble the atrocities committed by the Corleone clan. The approach [...] |
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