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Excellent Cadavers
First Run / Icarus Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, this documentary chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral -- and seemingly ineradicable -- relationship to postwar Italian politics. (First Run / Icarus Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alexander Stille (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marco Turco
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: July 12, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color / B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
Italy / France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English / Italian (with English subtitles) |
Best Documentary, 2005 Festival dei Popoli (Florence)

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83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Chronicles the showdown between prosecutors and mafiosi that, in the '80s and early '90s, turned the city of Palermo into a murderous blood zone.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's riveting.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Mr. Stille, more reporter than historian, does not stray too far beyond the immediate parameters of his main story, but the strongest criticism to be made of this film is also the highest praise: you wish there were more of it.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Marco Turco's film is a thorough, journalistic examination that is ultimately as horrifying as it is informative.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is a superb documentary that touches profundity in its footage of Rosaria Schifani, the widow of one of the police officers killed along with Falcone.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Anyone with the slightest interest in mob entertainment - from "The Godfather" to "The Sopranos" - should check out Marco Turco's grimly compelling documentary, which zooms in on the bloody streets of Palermo, Italy.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Anyone whose romantic illusions about the Mafia involve Michael Corleone and Tony Soprano would do well to watch Turco's eye-opening film: It shows the Cosa Nostra as the unstoppable and infinitely adaptable virus it is, and serves as a good entree to Stille's far more thorough book.

70
Village Voice
Joshua Land
A multimedia mosaic of the recent past—even if the overall effect is less one of rigorous historical engagement than of a filmmaker pulling out all the stops.

70
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
A bleakly riveting autopsy of frustrated hopes.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Gripping Italian documentary.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Cadavers is a rich mine of information on a subject about which it is sometimes too easy to be superficial.

60
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
But what really hooks the viewer are the copious news footage and crime-scene photos of Sicily and Palermo drenched in blood -- car bombs, decapitated heads, bodies spilled in awkward poses after assassinations in street cafés. In showing all the stuff that the History Channel discreetly edits out, Excellent Cadavers dismantles the celluloid romanticizing of the Mafia.

60
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Marco Turco's documentary rendition of Stille's book is a graphic reminder that at least one place on earth continues to be the site of a primordial moral struggle.

60
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Story will be familiar, but still of interest to Italian auds.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
In spite of all that--and in spite of the artfully lit interviews and energetic musical score--the documentary resolves into an accumulation of names, dates, and mundane procedural detail. The sympathy is missing.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
There's little, if anything, that will be new for those interested in the subject.


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