The owner of the only cinema in
Matteo Messina Denaro's home town in Sicily says he won't show
the soon to be released biopic of Cosa Nostra's last superboss
fugitive who died of cancer a year ago after being caught after
30 years on the run the previous January.
Cinema Marconi in Castelvetrano is run by Salvatore Vaccarino,
the son of the former mayor Antonio who died three years ago,
who says the film "doesn't interest me and doesn't concern me".
Sources said this may be because one of the characters in the
film, which is titled Iddu, Sicilian dialect for Him, and whose
English title is Sicilian Letters, may have been based on his
late father.
Others say sympathies for Messina denaro still run deep in
Castelvetrano and the film portrays the late boss in an
unfavourable light.
Mayor Giovanni Lentini, who has the local culture brief, said
"I'll try to carry out a work of persuasion and change the minds
of the cinema operators so that citizens can be given the chance
(of seeing the film)".
Sicilian Letters, written and directed by Fabio Grassadonia and
Antonio Piazza, stars Elio Germano as Messina Denaro and Toni
Servillo as Catello, a politician turned operative in the
Italian secret service.
The film premiered at the 81st Venice International Film
Festival earlier this month.
The lpot summary says: "In the early 2000s, the embattled
politician Catello seeks to revive his career by helping the
Secret Service track down the last known Cosa Nostra boss,
Matteo Messina Denaro, whom Catello has known his entire life.
"The two begin corresponding via letters in a game of cat and
mouse."
On the Rotten Tomatoes website the film has two positive reviews
and four negative ones.
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