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The Sicilian Girl

NB! Screening on Tuesday 22nd Sep at 12pm has moved from Kinopalatsi 6 -> 8

Cloaked in shafts of darkness from the first frame, ”The Sicilian Girl” is not an easy film to get into. Stick with it though; gradually an evocative manipulation of light begins to reveal significant details related to community and vengeance within la Cosa Nostra.

Loosely based on the diaries of Rita Atria (Veronica D’Agostino), ”The Sicilian Girl” takes the viewer into the complex web of Italian gangsters via an early-’90s legal milestone. Shifting time to accommodate young Rita’s veneration of her father and her presence at his contract slaying, this Sicilian girl meticulously documents village life polluted by crime and retribution. (…)

Free from any semblance of gangster cool, the mobsters themselves are largely mute. The story instead focuses on an individual struggle to break the back of systematic corruption. Utterly compelling.