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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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Marco Turco's film is a thorough, journalistic examination that is ultimately as horrifying as it is informative.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Cadavers is a rich mine of information on a subject about which it is sometimes too easy to be superficial.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Story will be familiar, but still of interest to Italian auds.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
There's little, if anything, that will be new for those interested in the subject.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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