★★★★☆ Making her debut appearance at the London Film Festival, noted theatre director, screenwriter and actress Emma Dante presents Sicilian-based drama A Street in Palermo (2013), a big screen adaptation of her own acclaimed novel of the same name. Widower Samira (Elena Cotta) cleans the tomb of her daughter before going to pick up her son-in-law Saro (Renato Malfatti) and his family from the beach. Once seated, she drives them through the streets of Palermo towards home. Meanwhile, lesbian couple Rosa (Dante) and Clara (Alba Rohrwacher) search for a wedding reception only one of them wants to attend.
The two cars meet head-to-head in the middle of a narrow street, and with neither of the stubborn women willing to reverse and let the other one pass, a showdown commences between the old and the new; traditionalism and liberalism. Horns sound, neighbours look out of windows and a traffic jam inevitably starts to form.
The two cars meet head-to-head in the middle of a narrow street, and with neither of the stubborn women willing to reverse and let the other one pass, a showdown commences between the old and the new; traditionalism and liberalism. Horns sound, neighbours look out of windows and a traffic jam inevitably starts to form.
- 10/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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