Synopsis
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
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Cast
- PifArturo Giammaresi
- Cristiana CapotondiFlora
- Rosario LismaLorenzo Giammaresi il papà di Arturo
- Barbara TabitaMaria Pia, la madre di Arturo
- Alex BiscontiYoung Arturo
- Ginevra AntonaYoung Flora
- Antonino BruschettaFra Giacinto
- Claudio GioèFrancesco
- Turi Giuffridail Generale Dalla Chiesa
- Roberto BurgioGiorgio Boris Giuliano
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Original, winning entertainment, and well executed. No pun intended. - 90
Village Voice
Diliberto has managed to make a political comedy that seems at once tremendously funny and intensely serious — a provocative, and perhaps even important, combination. - 80
Variety
There are moments when audiences will wonder if laughing about gangland whackings isn’t in bad taste, yet it becomes increasingly clear that the helmer-scripter is using humor to cut Mafia bosses down to size, thereby turning an accusatory glare at an Italy that granted these people power. - 75
Portland Oregonian
With a deft touch that veers from wry, absurd humor to appalled outrage, the Italian journalist and satirist Pierfrancesco Diliberto makes a noteworthy film debut with The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
The line between ha-ha funny and sorrowful reverence has been crossed - more deftly than you'd think. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Though heavy-handed in places, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer is a generally charming and engrossing debut feature. - 63
Boston Globe
It’s an awkward balancing act. The result is more Benigni than Bertolucci, and though Diliberto achieves moments of poignancy and touches on insightful psychological truths, it doesn’t look like he’ll be winning any Oscars soon. - 50
Slant Magazine
Individual politicians, detectives, and mafiosi come and go so quickly that the audience doesn't have enough time to become emotionally invested in their lives and deaths.
