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Rebel 150x150 La siciliana ribelle (The Sicilian Girl) (2009)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.

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header10 3 Brussels Movie DaysAurore Engelen, writing for our good friends at Cineuropa.org (checked out our European Film Awards blog yet?), lets us in on the cinematic surprises beginning today (10 September), in the heart of Belgium…

A year after drawing audiences to the newly opened Wolubilis complex, Brussels Movie Days returns with numerous US and European avant-premieres in store. Viewers – attracted by the exclusive screenings and reduced admission prices – will thus be able to enjoy the Coen brothers’ latest work, Burn After Reading (2008),a burlesque thriller set to be released in Belgium on 26 November.

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