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Excellent Cadavers

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Alexander Stille (book)

Directed by: Marco Turco

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 12, 2006

Running Time: 92 minutes, Color / B/W

Origin: Italy / France

Language(s): English / Italian (with English subtitles)

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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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.

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80

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

It's riveting.

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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.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Marco Turco's film is a thorough, journalistic examination that is ultimately as horrifying as it is informative.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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70

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

A bleakly riveting autopsy of frustrated hopes.

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70

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Gripping Italian documentary.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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60

Variety Leslie Felperin

Story will be familiar, but still of interest to Italian auds.

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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.

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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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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