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Sicilian Girl

MARCO AMENTA
Italy, 2009, 115 minutes, Color, film's website

Based on the true story of a young girl growing up in a Mafia family, The Sicilian Girl shines an intriguing light on what is, even in the Mediterranean, a shadowy world. After she witnesses her father gunned down in the street, Rita (Veronica D'Agostino) vows revenge. She also begins a diary and starts carefully observing the secret activities of the local crime lords. That she's in love with Vito (Francesco Casisa), who is himself getting deeper into the underworld, is only one more complication in her increasingly confusing life. It is Rita's fierce loyalty to her family that finally brings her to the police, seeking justice after her brother is murdered. But after turning over her diaries, Rita must confront disturbing truths about her father and brother and discover the difference between revenge and justice. —Dave Nuttycombe

In Italian with English subtitles

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