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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Zenith International Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Zenith International Films
  • 1 h 45 m
Mafioso [re-release]

Summary 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 S...

Directed By: Alberto Lattuada

Written By: Rafael Azcona, Bruno Caruso, Marco Ferreri, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Zenith International Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Zenith International Films
  • 1 h 45 m

Mafioso [re-release]

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Summary 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 S...

Directed By: Alberto Lattuada

Written By: Rafael Azcona, Bruno Caruso, Marco Ferreri, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli

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100
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.
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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.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
89
This is the sort of masterpiece that will obliterate memories of lesser, later efforts in the "meeting the parents" comedy lineage. Brilliant.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
88
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.
By Aaron Hillis FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Compagnia Cinematografica Antonio Cervi, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Release Date Jan 19, 2007
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline This is the face of a MAFIOSO...sometimes smiling, sometimes savage. Here is the story of a man who returns to his native Sicily for a holiday and finds himself again bound to the silent laws of "The Honored Society."
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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 2 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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