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Mafioso (re-release)
Universal acclaim
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Classic | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Rafael Azcona
Marco Ferreri
Bruno Caruso (story)
Agenore Incrocci & Furio Scarpelli (Age Scarpelli)
Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 19, 2007
Running Time: 105 minutes, B/W
Origin: Italy
Language(s): Italian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio, Cinzia Bruno, Katiusca Piretti, Armando Tine, and Lilly Bistrattin
This re-release of the 1962 classic mob comedy stars award winning Italian cultural icon and actor Albert Sordi. Mafioso explores the regionalisms, preconceptions, and ethnic stereotypes of Italian culture in a witty and often uproarious manner when a slightly foolish factory worker (Sordi) takes his wife on a trip to Italy to meet his Sicilian family.
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What The Critics Said
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TV Guide Ken Fox
A small comic masterpiece that dares to deal with that of which many Sicilians dare not speak: the Mafia.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A magnificent film almost no one knows about, this hidden classic offers a wider variety of pleasures than most contemporary works can even aspire to.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
Lattuada has adapted a gritty neorealist style to suit his dark comedy and is in full command in the final half hour, when he ups the ante in surprising ways.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The film combines farcical and sinister tones, as well as textures of high polish and captured-in-the-raw neorealism, and it simply brims with energy and surprises.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over "The Godfather." It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
It's a marvelous performance in a marvelous movie, one that sneaks up on you while you're watching it.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The movie is at once a giddy mixture of farce, satire and opera buffa and a closely observed drama of social dislocation and cultural confusion.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
Filmed in a hot and bleached black-and-white, it manages to swerve from culture-clashing farce to alarming suspense without losing control.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Sordi is an elegant comic actor in the vein of America's William Powell; the world may confound him, but it can never rumple him.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Mafioso may have been made in another era, but it stands as a classy, even radical rebuke to the film school posers who keep recycling the same tired gangster tropes.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This is the sort of masterpiece that will obliterate memories of lesser, later efforts in the "meeting the parents" comedy lineage. Brilliant.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Mafioso is shaped like a comedy, and it is one, but its intentionally jarring clashes of tone and rhythm are truly out there.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Mafioso isn't a straight black satire of Sicilian culture so much as a suspenseful near-tragedy leavened by the zesty, irreverent wit that helped define the golden age of Italian comedies.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
[Sordi] lifts buffoonery to the level of high art.
Chicago Reader Pat Graham
A more visually conscious stylist than most Italian commercial directors of the period, Lattuada remains largely unknown in the U.S., though in Europe he's been touted as the great eclectic talent of the postwar Italian cinema.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
That's the beauty of Mafioso: that what begins as a comedy of disconnection becomes a tragicomedy of connection -- of roots that go deep and branches that span continents.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Alberto Lattuada's tricky-to-parse Mafioso dates from 1962 but, with its abrupt tonal shifts and disturbing existential premise, this nearly forgotten dark comedy could be the most modern (or at least modernist) movie in town.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Mafioso starts out as a comedy of manners before turning into a mob thriller that brings Nino to Bergen County, N.J. When he gets there, look for a man reading The Post on a street corner.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The matchless Alberto Sordi - a contemporary of Peters Sellers and a progenitor of Steve Martin - stars as the buffoon Everyman, Antonio Badalamenti, a perfectly poised figure destined for the pratfall.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Marta Barber
Satire is at the core of Mafioso, whether in establishing the by-now-stereotypical images of Sicilian peasants or the gripping arms of the Mafia.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Andrew K. gave it a7:
I will admit that I am a child of the nineties, and so my attention span is not great. But I love old films and I always try to be more patient with their slower pace. There were points in this film where I wondered if I'd be able to make it through, but something would always come along to shake my boredom. Some very funny bits with the family, especially Nino's sister with the mustache. I was surprised then at how dramatic it became toward the end. As has been said in the reviews above, the director is somehow able to transition from comedy to suspense. Alberto Sordi is great. I'd never heard of him before. He definitely reminded me of Peter Sellers (not just because he bares a somewhat similar physical appearance). This was a great film, but I doubt many young people like myself will be able to sit through it. One of the coolest parts of this film is when Nino ends up in America and he's being driven through the city. The towering skyscrapers look beautiful and are coupled with perfect music. Go see this one if you enjoy broadening your horizons.
John A. gave it a10:
Hilarious and powerful, this movie got under my skin. The more I think about it, the more I'm impressed. Alberto Sordi is unforgettable. I look forward to seeing it again -- hope for a quick DVD release.
