Tuccio Musumeci Movies
- 2009
This crime comedy from the nutty Italian duo Valentino Picone and Salvatore Ficarra features the two writer-director-stars, respectively, as Paolo and Gaetano, cousins estranged from one another. The boys haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia. Godfather Don Gino (Pino Caruso witnesses the extent to which Gaetano and Paolo need to stay close, and aggressively intervenes to try to reconcile them with one another. Anna Safroncik and Mary Cipolla lend supporting roles. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anna Safroncik, Claudio Gioe, (more)
- 1989
- R
Set during the Mussolini years, Open Doors stars Gian Maria Volonte as an old-line judge. Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvements" made by the Fascists. His insistence upon justice over dogma results in government reprimands, and ultimately poses a threat to Volonte's well-being. The honesty vs. corruption theme transcends the film's period settings, resulting in an allegorical masterpiece that has significance in any country, any time. Open Doors was a nominee for the "best foreign picture" Academy Award. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gian Maria Volontè, Renato Carpentieri, (more)
- 1975
- R
In this sex comedy, confusion over the masculinity of Sicilian father Vito (Turi Ferro) and his son Roberto (Marc Porel) reigns, especially when Roberto returns from England with a girlfriend whom everyone thinks is a boy. When they are seen kissing, he is assumed to be homosexual. Later, when his stepmother attempts to seduce him, the father assumes he has been cuckolded by his own son. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Turi Ferro, Agostina Belli, (more)
- 1972
- R
Lina Wertmuller's fifth feature, The Seduction of Mimi, stars the director's favorite leading man, Giancarlo Giannini. Giannini plays the muddler of the title, who can't keep apace with the exigencies of a cruel, callous society (this character would be honed to perfection in Wertmuller's subsequent Seven Beauties); his political and sexual ignorance land him in hot water time and again. Wertmuller devotes much of the picture's running time to lengthy monologues and diatribes involving sex and politics; the film attained notoriety for its infamous sequence of Giannini bedding an obese woman. Wertmuller won a Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her work in this picture. Originally titled Mimi Mettalurgio Ferito nell'Onore, the film has also been released as Mimi the Metalworker and Wounded in Honor. It was remade (very loosely) by Richard Pryor as Which Way Is Up? (1977). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, (more)
