Presented at the opening ceremony of the 56th edition of La Semaine de la Critique, directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s second feature has since been released in Italy (May 2017), in Brazil (September 2017) and more recently in France (June 2018, distributed by Jour2Fête) and in the United Kingdom (August 2018). With SICILIAN GHOST STORY, the two directors-screenwriters attest yet again to their talent after Salvo, which was selected in the 2012 edition of La Semaine de la Critique and won the Nespresso Grand Prize. “Most cinema, in different ways, is about figures in a landscape. But who has ever seen a film in which the two are more bewitchingly entwined than in Sicilian Ghost Story? Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, co-writers and co-directors, found their tale’s roots in a true Mafia kidnapping case. But they transform it into something extraordinary: a tragedy-romance with visuals like a tapestry’s or an illuminated manuscript’s." (Financial Times)
