Icarus Films has wasted no time in rolling out the Distrib
Films selections that it recently acquired for domestic home entertainment
distribution. Last week it was director
Jérôme Bonnell’s Just a Sigh, (starring Emmanuelle Devos and Gabriel Byrne), which will be
making its DVD debut on Mar. 28.
This week the good news is that Sicilian filmmaker and actor
Pierfrancesco Diliberto (aka: Pif) will see his award-winning film, The
Mafia Kills Only in Summer, available on DVD this coming Apr. 11.
The film opened at the Torino Film Festival (it won the Audience Award) in November
of 2013 and then proceeded to work the international festival circuit
throughout 2014 and 2015, with a brief domestic arthouse theatrical run in
March of 2015. And then gone.
For
the record, the ARR is 760 days and reported ticket sales were $37,134.
With
this distribution pack now in place, Distrib Films now has a partner in Icarus
Films with the know-how to get films such as The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
a second look in the home entertainment arena.
We can expect more to follow.
Diliberto, who is known to Italian audiences as the
television satirist “Pif,” stars as the adult version of Arturo (the younger
version is played by Alex Bisconti), a young man who was conceived on the very
day that a Mafioso by the name of Totò Riina (Antonio Alveario) became mayor of
his home town, Palermo. It is as if
what followed was written in the stars — an intersection of souls.
What filmmaker “Pif” has done is to give us a bittersweet
history of 20 years of mob rule in this otherwise lovely Italian city on the
island of Sicily in the form of a romantic (black) comedy that follows him and
his life-long “girlfriend,” Flora (Cristiana Capotondi), from their days as school
children to that of adults. Will they
complete the cycle and marry or will Arturo let her slip away … or has destiny
already written the outcome?
There is one other star of this film, and that is the city
of Palermo itself (a sort of “Cliff Notes” history of the 1970s through 1990s
plays out using actual footage and headlines covering important events in
support of the film narrative).
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer is presented in Italian with
English subtitles.
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