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The Sicilian

5.3

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Original title

The Sicilian

Year

1987

Running time

105 min.

Country

United States

Director

Michael Cimino

Screenwriter

Steve Shagan. Novel: Mario Puzo

Cast

Music

David Mansfield

Cinematography

Alex Thomson

Producer

Gladden Entertainment

Genre

Adventure. Drama | Mafia

Movie Groups

Mario Puzo Adaptations

Synopsis

Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. As his popularity grows, so does his ego, and he eventually thinks he is above the power of his backer, Mafia Don Masino Croce. The Don, in turn, sets out to kill the upstart by convincing his cousin and closest advisor Gaspare to assassinate him.

Critics' reviews

"'The Sicilian' represents a botched telling of the life of postwar outlaw leader Salvatore Giuliano"

Variety Staff: Variety
"The dialogue is ponderously poetic, stilted and over-emphatic (...) and both cutting and photography tend towards the bombastic. Folly, then, but gloriously inept and overblown."

Geoff Andrew: Time Out
"The film is a mess, though hardly on the panoramic scale of 'Heaven's Gate.'"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"This is one of Cimino's best films, with a fine sense of spectacle and landscape."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"One of this film's big problems is that you can hardly see it. The foregrounds are dark and indistinct. The backgrounds are overlit and washed-out. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"If Cimino had gone along with the campy nosedive this movie takes, Sicilian could have been to mob films what Blazing Saddles was to westerns."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post

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The Sicilian

1987

Michael Cimino

5.3

(1,453)