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The Traitor

Il traditore

2019

Marco Bellocchio

Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Luigi Lo Cascio ...

6.7

3,873

Drama In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: He decides to meet ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"[It] feels a bit too anonymous. It’s clearly made by a master filmmaker questioning the nature of repentance, and as such is far from superficial; and yet while it never loses our attention, it also doesn’t deliver much of a punch."
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"This is one of the most revealing portraits of the Cosa Nostra on film (...) Its most valuable asset is actor Pierfrancesco Favino (...) He packs serious intensity into his portrayal of Tommaso Buscetta"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"By the time the film ends, the man is as much of a stranger to us as he was when it started (...) [The script] begins to mistake obfuscation with complexity"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"[A] sturdy if somewhat uninspiring Mafia biopic (...) [Bellocchio] approaches the material with a handsomely mounted if somewhat distant style"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"As engrossing as this world is (...) Bellocchio can’t entirely overcome the material’s two key limitations: audience familiarity with the milieu and the denseness of detail within this true story
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'The Traitor' is acted and directed throughout with confidence and force, but somehow it lacks the lightning-flash of inspiration of something like Scorsese’s 'Goodfellas' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Camillo de Marco Cineuropa	"This is a biopic in true Bellocchio style; visionary and original, it brings together horror and dream-like delirium (...) Pierfrancesco Favino is majestic"

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