Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019) [N/A]
Featuring:
Letizia Battaglia, Ciccio Mira, Matteo Mannino
Written by:
Uliano Greca
Francesco Guttuso
Giuliano La Franca
Directed by:
Franco Maresco
Release Date:
September 12, 2019
Original Title:
La Mafia non è più quella di una volta
Alternate Titles:
Die Mafia ist auch nicht mehr das, was sie mal war
Era Uma Vez a Máfia
The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Amateru
Avocado Pictures
Daring House
Dream Film
Il Saggiatore
Ila Palma
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Moretti & Petrassi Holding
Tramp Limited
Production Countries:
Germany | Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 111
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.
In 2017, 25 years after the Mafia's massacres at Capaci and Via D'Amelio., Franco Maresco decides to make a new film. The idea is given impetus by a work at that time completed recently, and dedicated to the photographer Letizia Battaglia, defined by The New York Times in 2017 as one of the "eleven women" who have left their mark on our time. He feels the need to combine Letizia, in parallel, with a figure as strong as it is peripheral, from the other side of the fence: Ciccio Mira, the leading character in 2014's Belluscone. Una storia siciliana. The "legendary" organizer of popular street festivals, capable of inspiring a particular "empathy" in spite of his nostalgic ideas of the Mafia as it used to be, Mira has changed over these few years, and now he seems to seek redemption, as a man and as a manager. But the leopard cannot change its spots. He takes "care" of a new pupil, the young Cristian Miscel, often subject to psychotic episodes, especially when his mother and his impresario cannot guarantee his time on stage; and wants to organize a unique event at Zen, "I neolomelodici per Falcone e Borsellino" (The neolomelodics for Falcone and Borsellino), on the occasion of the celebrations commemorating the two martyrs killed by the Mafia .
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