2017 · drama · fantasy · mystery
Sicilian Ghost Story
Directed by Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza2h 2m2017
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
Our read: Sicilian Ghost Story (2017) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · fantasy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
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