My favorite film at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Daniele Ciprì’s ‘È Stato Il Figlio’ starring Toni Servillo and Giselda Volodi will be available on DVD on February 12.
Don’t get too excited, Americans, the DVD is in PAL region 2 form and it won’t work on your DVD player unless you have a European or a region free one.
HAVE I MENTIONED HOW TRULY AFFORDABLE REGION FREE DVD PLAYERS ARE?
In È Stato Il Figlio, when a daughter is killed by a mafioso bullet meant for her cousin, the family is thrown into deep and desperate mourning, lessened only by the news that they are owed compensation from the government, given when an innocent victim is killed by Mafia violence. The money, which seems at first a gift from God, slowly becomes a curse, and it will be up to everyone who sees this movie to decide for himself the level of irony in the film’s title: E’ Stato Il Figlio – It Was The Son.
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