By Mónica Delgado

If in Salvo, Grassadonia and Piazza’s previous film, the filmmakers returned to some motifs proper of “mafia films” to then place them in a dark setting, like in a sophisticated and austere film noir, in Sicilian Love Story they seem to be inspired by the same issues, but this time with a fantastic and coming-of-age kind of view. And there lies the originality of this film, which starts like Romeo and Juliet, in a town far away from this insular Italy, where two adolescents in school have a relationship which is not approved by a castrating ghostly mother.