Mafioso
1962 Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Synopsis
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
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I feel like I've been on another good but not great streak. Consider that broken. This is an Italian movie, Criterion, though I watched it on Netflix. It's about Antonio Badalamenti, a manager in a car factory in Northern Italy who decides to take his wife and two young girls on vacation to Sicily to meet his family. Before leaving, his boss asks him to bring a gift to someone there, Don Vincenzo, mafioso boss.
I think Netflix mentions it's a "semi-comedy." It's more of a black comedy(in addition to crime drama), and it's very funny, but it's also very serious.
Alberto Sordi, who is Antonio, plays this friggin perfectly. His wife is good too, but he's the star.
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Years before The Godfather came out, this movie saud a lot about the mafia. Most of the films that I have seen before the 1960s aren't about the mafia rather they are about gangsters in New York and they were pretty good but this film is a lot different from them because it shows you no matter if you leafe a place you will always be tied to it much like how this main character does because he is kind of naive about what is going on even though he should no better since he even makes the comment that people don't really now what mafia mean and apparently he doesn't either because despite the fact that that he is…
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I feel like I've been on another good but not great streak. Consider that broken. This is an Italian movie, Criterion, though I watched it on Netflix. It's about Antonio Badalamenti, a manager in a car factory in Northern Italy who decides to take his wife and two young girls on vacation to Sicily to meet his family. Before leaving, his boss asks him to bring a gift to someone there, Don Vincenzo, mafioso boss.
I think Netflix mentions it's a "semi-comedy." It's more of a black comedy(in addition to crime drama), and it's very funny, but it's also very serious.
Alberto Sordi, who is Antonio, plays this friggin perfectly. His wife is good too, but he's the star.
Awesome movie
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Okay Italian comedy probably loses a lot in the translation, as it seems to poke fun at regional stereotypes quite a bit. A worker in Milan goes back to his hometown of Sicily with his family, and accidentally gets caught up doing a hit (in NY!) for the local mob boss. It’s gently humorous, but feels somewhat slight. The scenes when the main character arrives in New York, not speaking any English, are the highlight.
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One of the rare disappointments from CC,Sicily is a dreadful place to visit