Sicilian Letters

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Sicilian Letters

2024

2h 2m

Crime

Drama

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SICILY, EARLY 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service "persuades" him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man's emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk....

Jessica Kiang

Variety

This is a strangely self-defeating film, jumping at themes that remain beyond its imaginative reach, and when they prove elusive, masking the resultant stumble with a joke.

Sep 7, 2024

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Andrew Murray

The Upcoming

Sicilian Letters may be based on a fascinating real-life tale, but there’s unfortunately not that much interesting going on in this fictionalised version of those events.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 10, 2024

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Considering reality was the departure point, the filmmakers somehow fall short with their possibilities, choosing a perplexing, rather underwhelming destination, which crash-lands into a finale.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 7, 2024

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

More of a romp than a revengers’ tragedy. In part, this can be shored home to the central presence of the great Tony Servillo, whose resting expression of ironic amusement gives everything around him a touch of levity.

Sep 7, 2024

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Ema Sasic

Next Best Picture

Focusing on the back-and-forth correspondence between the two men gives us funny moments and great lines of dialogue, but it needs some more juice, like giving Germano way more to work with as a mob boss.

Rated: 6/10

Sep 6, 2024

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Claire Fulton

Loud and Clear Reviews

The main problem is that Iddu feels too much like only a part of something, a mere piece of a much larger story.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 6, 2024

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Fabio Grassadonia

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Antonio Piazza

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SICILY, EARLY 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service "persuades" him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man's emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk....

Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri, Alexis Dantec
Screenwriter: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Production Co: Indigo Film, Rai Cinema, Les Films du Losange
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: Italian
Runtime: 2h 2m