In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of clothes, music and dance in a charming, evocative study of the women of the Sicilian city of Palermo.
Vecchio pescatore
En una pequeña isla del archipiélago siciliano, sobrevive una familia formada por Filippo, un joven de 19 años, su abuelo pescador y su viuda madre. Ya nadie vive de la pesca y ellos mismos tendrán que resignarse y comenzar una nueva vida. Alquilarán su casa a los turistas durante el verano, y venderán la barca una vez terminado éste. Pero un día que Filippo y su abuelo salen a pescar, se encontrarán con una patera llena de inmigrantes a punto de naufragar...
Pasquale Criscione
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Salvatore (segment "Requiem")
Adaptación cinematográfica de cinco hermosos relatos del escritor seciliano Luigi Pitandello.
