2013 · romance · comedy · crime
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Directed by Pif1h 30m2013
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
Our read: The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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