Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Mafioso
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Oct 5, 2008 – Oct 6, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$10
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Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts sing — like a canary — in the black comedy Mafioso. Made a decade before Coppola's Godfather, the bittersweet film stars ace-in-the-hole Alberto Sordi as a Sicilian auto-factory foreman who heads home with his family. After a picturesque, Sicily-is-a-great-place-to-visit sequence, the local godfather enlists his carefree compatriot to deliver a message to New York. Despite cheap laughs (hirsute sisters, hormonal yokels), Sordi's lovable everyman enchants as he navigates Sicily's unspoken familial and cultural codes. Meanwhile, Lo Scopone Scientifico features Sordi in a rich-and-poor farce surrounding an Italian card game.
