Story?
Could anyone please post a brief plot outline - what's the movie about?
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shareTuri Leofonte is going to go out of the jail and the protection program for his family is finishing. The policeman Nino di Venanzio, who is in love with his daughter Chiara (she has two children of a man that died in the first movie and that was Nino's best friend) is very worried. Turi wants to come back to Sicily and take the money he stole from mafia man Rocco Scalia, but he's afraid and wants Nino and his team go with him and protect him. Nino decides to go for Chiara. But Scalia has other projects for Turi and plans to kindap his nephew Stefano, an autistic boy who is a genius in maths.
This movie is a great movie. It remembers Scerbanenco's novels and some 1970s Italian movie, but it's very well done. Raoul Bova is perfect for the role and Ricky Memphis and Libero DeRienzo are very good and funny. Of course Giancarlo Giannini is always great! The action scenes are perfecly directed and the plot is thrilling until the end. My advice is to go and see it.
I saw this last night at the L.A. Italia Film Festival and found it very entertaining.
It has some wonderful cinematography and music, and the acting is good. Most of the players are a visual treat and it has some good, Italian style shootouts that bring to mind some of the glory of old Hollywood.
I go to be to movies to be entertained and I like the dramatic flair of the Italian directors.
I recommend this one.
Songs out of tune, the words always a little wrong...Canzoni Stonate
So this ha been presented at LA Italia film festival.
I'm curious, was it in Italian with subtitles? There is a very interesting work on Italian different dialects that maybe is not understandable for a not-Italian speaker
Yes, it was presented in Italian with subtitles (which never do a film's native language justice in my opinion). I speak Spanish, so even though I resort to the subtitles I also listen carefully and can pick up a great deal of the Italian to get the real flavor of the movie's dialogue.
Are you speaking of dialects from different regions of Italy/Sicily or what?
With my Spanish and bits of Italian, I remember being able to understand the Venetians more easily than the southern Italians on my trips to Italy.
Songs out of tune, the words always a little wrong...Canzoni Stonate
Ciao, thank you for answer!
Spanish and Italian are quite similar, so even if I don't speak Spanish I'm able to understand something a Spanish person is saying. So is the same for a Spanish-speaker with Italian.
The main characters of the movie have roots from the south of Italy, even if the story begins in Milan, both Turi and Nino comes from the south (Turi from Sicily and Nino from Calabria, I think). Remo and Libero are from Rome. Libero is the brother of the character played in the first movie (maybe you know that this movie is a sequel)by Valerio Mastandrea, a very sweet and nice character.
Anyway all of them speak Italian with accent. On the contrary the woman and her son who keep the young authistic boy (Turi's nepew) when they kidnap him, speak in Sicilian dialect and it's difficult also for Italian speakers to understand what they say.
Anyway one of the best character in my opinion is the villain, the mafia man Rocco Scalia: what a good performance by Enrico LoVerso! What do you think about?
Have you seen the first movie : Palermo- Milano: sola andata?
Venetian accent is very nice and musically. Venentian dialect is quite understandeble, in particular if it's written. One of the most important Italian theatre author, Carlo Goldoni, wrote many plays in Venetian (such as "i Rusteghi") and they're very nice and funny.
Ps- Why did you choose the song Canzoni Stonate as sign?
Ciao and you are welcome.
I thought most of the performances were good, including LoVerso, who was very good as the villain.
I did not realize it was a sequel until I got home and looked it up. Do you know if Palermo-Milano: solo andata ever came out in DVD. I have tried to locate it so I could watch it, but can't seem to find it through Amazon or Netflix?
As for Canzoni Stonate, I love the song/music and adopted it as my signature for various reasons, but as a writer as well as music lover, the idea of things being slightly off key or off kilter or maybe words being inadequate to express emotions appeals to the romantic in me. I also love the word Stonate (desafinado) for some reason. Perhaps it's just symbolic of life in general sometimes.
Songs out of tune, the words always a little wrong...Canzoni Stonate
I think that exits the DVD of Palermo Milano (I have a copy of it), but maybe only in Italian without subtitles. Anyway the second film is a sequel of 11 years after and is better than the first one. I repeat, there is a very nice and young Valerio Mastandrea in the first movie. I like this actor, I don't know if you know him or see any movie he's in.
Have you seen other Italian movies at LA Italia film fest? I tink that in America is quite difficult to see an Italian movie (and sometimes it's good, because some of them are terrible!).
It's nice what you say about "canzoni stonate", this song is pretty good and so "fresh".
Ciao and thanks again for the answer.