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Mafioso (re-release)
Rialto Pictures
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Classic
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Comedy
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Crime
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Drama
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rafael Azcona
Marco Ferreri
Bruno Caruso (story)
Agenore Incrocci & Furio Scarpelli (Age Scarpelli)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Alberto Lattuada
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: January 19, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
Italy |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Italian (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A small comic masterpiece that dares to deal with that of which many Sicilians dare not speak: the Mafia.

100
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.

100
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.

91
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.

91
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.

91
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.

90
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.

90
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.

90
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.

90
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.

89
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.

88
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.

88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Mafioso is the missing link in the mob movie arc.

88
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.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
[Sordi] lifts buffoonery to the level of high art.
80
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.

80
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.

80
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.


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