As a part of this blog, I will also post information on Italian films to watch for. Here's the first one: I just read an interview on the site of Italy Magazine with a new director, Pierfrancesco "Pif" Diliberto, whose first film is gaining some attention. La mafia uccide solo d'estate (The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer) attempts to depict Pif's experience growing up in Sicily in the 1970s and 1980s, during some of the darkest years of Mafia influence.
The film also deals with the effect that the mafia killings of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the anti-mafia magistrates assassinated in Sicily months apart in 1992, had on young people of that generation.
The trailer looks great. I'm intrigued by the shots of the boy playing the young Pif dressed up like Andreotti, especially the way it echoes how Sorrentino depicted him in Il divo. The feel I have is that there is a lot of black humor to deal with some harsh realities for normal Sicilians of the era. La mafia uccide solo d'estate was released in Italy in November - I'll keep an eye out for a chance to see it here.
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