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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 [...] [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 [...] [photopress:Dench.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Matteo Garrone’s harsh, hard-hitting exposé of the Neapolitan mafia, Gomorra, took five awards, while everyone’s favourite ‘M’, Dame Judi Dench, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st European Film Awards ceremony in Copenhagen, on 6 December 2008. Click here for a full list of the nominees. |
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