The Sicilian represents a botched telling of the life of postwar outlaw leader Salvatore Giuliano.
The Sicilian
In Sicily, you stand by the law or by the Mafia. Only one man ever dared to stand alone.
1987 · 1h 56m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Cimino
Overview
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
The dialogue is ponderously poetic, stilted and over-emphatic, characters are convenient cyphers, and both cutting and photography tend towards the bombastic. Folly, then, but gloriously inept and overblown.
The film is a mess, though hardly on the panoramic scale of Heaven's Gate.
One of this film's big problems is that you can hardly see it. The foregrounds are dark and indistinct. The backgrounds are overlit and washed-out.
The Sicilian is unambiguously atrocious, but in that very special, howlingly grandiose manner that only a filmmaker with visions of epic greatness working on a large scale with a multinational cast can achieve.
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