Sicilia! (DVD) / Pierre Grise Productions ; Centre National de la Cinématographie ; Alia Film ; Istituto Luce ; written by Elio Vittorini, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub ; directed by Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet. Where does your hidden smile lie?
Publisher:
Grasshopper Film,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (66, 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Full screen (1.33:1). Includes a film by Pedro Costa: Where does your hidden smile lie? (2001, 107 min). Gianni Buscarino, Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri.
Summary:
Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura of a Caravaggio painting in this masterful film. A tragicomedy involving an orange peddler, an Italian recently returned from America, two 'stinky' police officers, a guilt-stricken landowner, a traveling knife sharpener and, perhaps most unforgettably, an indomitable peasant mother who reminisces about meals of snails and wild chicory, her husband's philandering and cowardice, and her own father's belief in an honest days labor, socialism, and St. Joseph.
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