Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Alternate/Foreign Title: Prove per una tragedia siciliana [Original title]DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2012-12-11
Genre: Foreign
Sub-genre: Drama
Director: Roman Paska
Stars: John Turturro, Mimmo Cuticchio, Andrea Camilleri, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi di Lampedusa, Donatella Finocchiaro, Vincenzo Pirrotta
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry.
Filmed during preparations for the Sicilian Day of the Dead, this evocative, magical-realist documentary was directed by Turturro's longtime collaborator, Roman Paska, himself a world-renowned puppeteer. Both an homage to the art of storytelling and a portrait of a Sicily little known to the outside world, Paska's film brings viewers to an otherworldly place, lost in time. Source: Amazon.com
Filmed during preparations for the Sicilian Day of the Dead, this evocative, magical-realist documentary was directed by Turturro's longtime collaborator, Roman Paska, himself a world-renowned puppeteer. Both an homage to the art of storytelling and a portrait of a Sicily little known to the outside world, Paska's film brings viewers to an otherworldly place, lost in time. Source: Amazon.com
