Mafioso

1962, Movie, 1h 45min

In Alberto Lattuada’s brilliant dark comedy MAFIOSO, auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his proper, modern wife (Norma Bengell) and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. But Antonio gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors—and himself. One of the first Italian films to look frankly at the Mafia, Lattuada’s devastatingly funny character study is equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare.

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7.6

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Critic Marc Savlov

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...a brilliant feat of sustained comedy that roves across the Italian and comic geography from Neopolitan pratfalls to bleak unsettling Sicilian existentialism.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle