The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil, 1969): Cine Lumiere, 11am
This film also screens at Cine Lumiere on October 15th and November 8th. Details here.
Time Out review:
Cast as the patriarch of a spaghetti-eating Sicilian family who are
crooks to a man, the once formidable Jean Gabin - stout, white-haired and now
a bit past it - mostly sits back and glowers while the younger members
of the cast squabble, lust and plot a caper involving the hijack of a
plane-load of jewels. He finally rouses himself from his lethargy to
defend his honour by executing Alain Delon, a Corsican who had the temerity to
play around with his daughter-in-law. Verneuil, not for the first time,
tries to direct like Jean-Pierre Melville and fails to make it, though
the action scenes are passable, and Henri Decaë's moody photography is rather more than that.
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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