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Sicilian Letters

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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....

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Jessica Kiang Variety 09/07/2024
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. Go to Full Review Andrew Murray The Upcoming 09/10/2024
2/5
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. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 09/07/2024
2.5/5
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. Go to Full Review Stephanie Bunbury Deadline Hollywood Daily 09/07/2024
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. Go to Full Review Ema Sasic Next Best Picture 09/06/2024
6/10
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. Go to Full Review Claire Fulton Loud and Clear Reviews 09/06/2024
3/5
The main problem is that Iddu feels too much like only a part of something, a mere piece of a much larger story. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Fabio Grassadonia

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Antonio Piazza

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Toni Servillo

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Elio Germano

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Daniela Marra

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Barbora Bobulova

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Synopsis 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
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