Pietro Giordano

The format was based on interviews to various shabby, crazy and alienated characters by the two directors, with the stark landscape of Sicily on the background.

The Italian duo Ciprì & Maresco, known to be cynical deconstructionists, weave a fascinating film around memories of a decadent Sicily. Ruins, memories of ruins – memories are ruins. This thoroughly surrealist piece unfolds like a dream, with no clear direction but the haunting feeling of familiarity and the ready acceptance of otherness as oneness.

In the immediate post-war Sicily two brothers set up the Trinacria House of Film Production, for what should be the "beginning of a Sicilian Hollywood". (wikipedia.org)