Sicilia!

Sicilia!

Jean Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet / 1999 / 66 minutes / Italy

Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura of a Caravaggio painting in this masterful film from legendary filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet. Sicilia! is a tragicomedy involving an orange peddler, an Italian recently returned from America, two “stinky” police officers, a guilt-stricken landowner, a traveling knife sharpener and, perhaps most unforgettably, an indomitable peasant mother who reminisces about meals of snails and wild chicory, her husband’s philandering and cowardice, and her own father’s belief in an honest day’s labor, socialism, and St. Joseph.

 

20th Anniversary Digital Restoration


BD/DVD INCLUDES:

• Pedro Costa’s Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie (2001, 107 minutes) in a new digital restoration

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  • "A masterpiece."

    — James Quandt, Artforum
  • “A passionate and wide-ranging masterwork by Straub and Huillet. With its references to the young man’s travels home and into his past, the lusty and carnivalesque stories that arise in conversation, and the politics of memory, Sicilia! suggests Straub and Huillet’s version of (and improvement on) a Fellini film.”

    — – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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