The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)

Wonderful character development!

Nice effects though.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is a surprisingly refreshing movie, which actually feels more like a documentary than a fictional movie. This is the story of Arturo, who was born and bred in Palermo in the 1970s and who lived through the Mafia assassinations of judges, policemen and politicians. Pif has managed to direct a very original film and found a funny way of telling a tragic story in a way that turns a documentary about Mafia killings into a heartwarming love story. Turning Alberto into a child journalist is funny and original way of telling the history of the struggle between the Mafia and the authorities in the bloody period, and the idea of turning tragic events into comedy was perhaps borrowed from "Life is Beautiful". Although not as good as the latter, I found this happy ending movie to be very entertaining and strongly recommend it.

This is a pretty little movie about Italian mafia made by Palermo's own Pif, famous Italian TV personality who grew up experiencing most of the events dramatized in the film. The story is nice and makes fun of the mafia while avoiding to minimize the huge problem it was and it is even today. Too bad the good aspects end here. The main problem here are the actors: almost every actor in the movie performed poorly, and I guess most of them aren't actors at all. This could be good if the "non- actors" would have had smaller or easier parts, but as it is, it doesn't work at all. Sorry to say the biggest letdown were the kids. There is a constant amateur vibe and continuous poor delivery of performances. The directing is better but still quite mediocre, and do very little to compensate the dreadful actors.

Pierfranceso di Liberto (in arte Pif) has pulled off a remarkable achievement with this film. It centers on Arturo, a middle-class boy living in Palermo in the 1970s-1980s who gradually comes to awareness of the murderous evil of La Cosa Nostra. His dawning awareness, and his moral awakening, parallel that of his city, whose residents would have preferred to have ignored the cancerous presence of the Mafia, but the brazen murders of so many of the Mafia's opponents -- honest politicians, magistrates, journalists -- forced them to confront it. That, and the amazing victories of the magistrates Falcone and Borsellino in prosecuting these monsters; tragically, they were both murdered shortly after the obtained convictions of some 300 criminals. Diliberto's protagonist Arturo initially is fascinated both by the mobbed-up premier Giulio Andreotti, and believes Andreotti's -- and his parents' lies about the mafia not existing in Sicily. (Andreotti, the protector of mafiosi, liked to say that the problem of organized crime existed only in Campania and Calabria.) The film's tonal balance is remarkable; at times it is hilariously funny; at others, heartbreaking. As the mafia crimes escalate, one feels despair, but at the film's marvelous conclusion, hope is restored. La mafia uccide solo in estate is without doubt one of the best films ever made about the scourge of Cosa Nostra.

Pif's movie, as I imagined, did not disappoint my expectations, the premise that addresses issues that have always "fascinated" me in their most significant period .. Probably the most dramatic in the history of Sicily, Palermo. And he does it making a parody of the events seen through the eyes of a child, which is even conceived the day on which, according to many historical arc begins the ascent of the good boys of Corleone. Falling in love and the vicissitudes of the small against the classmate is a very nice outline, that with the passage of time takes us all the most important events that occurred in those years .. Among Mafia bosses ignorant who do not know even turning on an air conditioner and very large men who fought for us, to whom is given the glory they deserve, this is a film that must be seen absolutely.sorry for my very bad English Greetings from Sicily