Mafia Inc Film Movement Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Daneil Grou Writer: André Cédilot, Sylvain Guy, André Noël Mafia Inc: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada’s Sicilian Clan by journalists André Cédilot and André Noël, Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Marc-André Grondin, Gilbert Sicotte, Mylèlen Mackay, Donny Falsetti Screened at: […]
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- 3/11/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Though there haven’t been a lot of movies about it, the tentacles of Italy-based organized crime duly reach above Scorsese territory to the even-more-frequently-Frozen North. If not for the French dialogue, however, you wouldn’t necessarily know “Mafia Inc” were taking place in Quebec, or even Canada, so familiar and insular is the brutal syndicate business depicted here. This solid mob drama is based on journalists Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel’s best-selling nonfiction tome of the same name, which had the self-explanatory subtitle “The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada’s Sicilian Clan.”
Somewhat fictionalizing a few elements from that decades-spanning exposé, “Mafia Inc” isn’t the most stylistically flamboyant, violent or memorable specimen within its screen genre. But it does provide an engrossing thicket of criminal intrigue that ultimately comes down to a conflict between two families, one headed by veteran Italian star Sergio Castellitto, the other by native son Marc-André Grondin.
Somewhat fictionalizing a few elements from that decades-spanning exposé, “Mafia Inc” isn’t the most stylistically flamboyant, violent or memorable specimen within its screen genre. But it does provide an engrossing thicket of criminal intrigue that ultimately comes down to a conflict between two families, one headed by veteran Italian star Sergio Castellitto, the other by native son Marc-André Grondin.
- 2/19/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Film Movement, Level 33 among Us buyers.
Heading into the Cannes virtual market, busy WaZabi Films has closed Us and European sales on Mafia Inc, a key territory on Cannes official selection Nadia Butterfly, and a North American deal on Broken Mirrors starring Unorthodox breakout Shira Haas.
The Montreal-based sales outfit run by Anick Poirier and Lorne Price has licensed Us rights on Mafia Inc to Film Movement in the Us, Koba Films in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, and One 2 See in Dutch-speaking Benelux.
Film Movement plans a digital launch in early winter later this year.
Daniel Grou directed...
Heading into the Cannes virtual market, busy WaZabi Films has closed Us and European sales on Mafia Inc, a key territory on Cannes official selection Nadia Butterfly, and a North American deal on Broken Mirrors starring Unorthodox breakout Shira Haas.
The Montreal-based sales outfit run by Anick Poirier and Lorne Price has licensed Us rights on Mafia Inc to Film Movement in the Us, Koba Films in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, and One 2 See in Dutch-speaking Benelux.
Film Movement plans a digital launch in early winter later this year.
Daniel Grou directed...
- 6/18/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Film Movement, Level 33 among Us buyers.
Heading into the Cannes virtual market, busy WaZabi Films has closed Us and European sales on Mafia Inc, a key territory on Cannes official selection Nadia Butterfly, and a North American deal on Broken Mirrors starring Unorthodox breakout Shira Haas.
The Montreal-based sales outfit run by Anick Poirier and Lorne Price has licensed Us rights on Mafia Inc to Film Movement in the Us, Koba Films in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, and One 2 See in Dutch-speaking Benelux.
Film Movement plans a digital launch in early winter later this year.
Daniel Grou directed...
Heading into the Cannes virtual market, busy WaZabi Films has closed Us and European sales on Mafia Inc, a key territory on Cannes official selection Nadia Butterfly, and a North American deal on Broken Mirrors starring Unorthodox breakout Shira Haas.
The Montreal-based sales outfit run by Anick Poirier and Lorne Price has licensed Us rights on Mafia Inc to Film Movement in the Us, Koba Films in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, and One 2 See in Dutch-speaking Benelux.
Film Movement plans a digital launch in early winter later this year.
Daniel Grou directed...
- 6/18/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Slate includes Advantages Of Travelling By Train, Below.
Montreal-based Seville International arrives at Efm with a packed sales slate led by new additions The Last Right, 14 Days, 12 Nights and Mafia Inc.
Comedy drama The Last Right shooting now in Ireland stars Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian Cox, Jim Norton in the tale of a reluctant stranger tasked with driving a corpse across Ireland for a burial, who in the process evades the police, finds love, and fixes family relations. Aoife Crehan directs and Pippa Cross, Paul Donovan and Casey Herbert serve as producers.
Xavier Dolan regular...
Montreal-based Seville International arrives at Efm with a packed sales slate led by new additions The Last Right, 14 Days, 12 Nights and Mafia Inc.
Comedy drama The Last Right shooting now in Ireland stars Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian Cox, Jim Norton in the tale of a reluctant stranger tasked with driving a corpse across Ireland for a burial, who in the process evades the police, finds love, and fixes family relations. Aoife Crehan directs and Pippa Cross, Paul Donovan and Casey Herbert serve as producers.
Xavier Dolan regular...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Louis Cyr: L’homme le plus fort du monde (English title: Louis Cyr)
Written by Sylvain Guy
Directed by Daniel Roby
Canada, 2013
People become legends in the annals of history for all sorts of reasons. They might have been great inventors, intellectuals, soldiers, artists, political leaders, activists or, arguably the sort of people who earn the admiration of the masses the most easily, athletes. Their impressive feats of physicality produce admiration, inspiration and courage, but do do their journeys, the stories of where they came from, especially when they hail from small, lesser known communities. Such was the case of champion weight lifter Louis Cyr from Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Québec, who was promoted as the strongest man in the world in the first decade of the 20th century. Director Daniel Roby and screenwriter Sylvain Guy have now translated the famous strongman’s story to the silver screen.
As is so often...
Written by Sylvain Guy
Directed by Daniel Roby
Canada, 2013
People become legends in the annals of history for all sorts of reasons. They might have been great inventors, intellectuals, soldiers, artists, political leaders, activists or, arguably the sort of people who earn the admiration of the masses the most easily, athletes. Their impressive feats of physicality produce admiration, inspiration and courage, but do do their journeys, the stories of where they came from, especially when they hail from small, lesser known communities. Such was the case of champion weight lifter Louis Cyr from Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Québec, who was promoted as the strongest man in the world in the first decade of the 20th century. Director Daniel Roby and screenwriter Sylvain Guy have now translated the famous strongman’s story to the silver screen.
As is so often...
- 7/8/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
I'm only just now catching up with this year's edition of De Filmkrant's best-known project, Slow Criticism 2012, for which editor Dana Linssen has invented a new game: "It is called The Other Side(s) of the World and includes a lot of cinephile Wanderlust and cybernetic travel schedules. With the kind assistance of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (that made the films available trough a preview stream) we have assembled a dossier with reviews of most of the premieres in the Bright Future section. Playing along were film critics from all over the world who embarked on a virtual journey to see a film that came from a country or film culture that was as far from their current location as possible. Or was it?"
Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López launch this collection of journeys with an essay on the "intimate connection between cinephilia and travel," in which they...
Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López launch this collection of journeys with an essay on the "intimate connection between cinephilia and travel," in which they...
- 2/20/2012
- MUBI
Toronto -- Christal Films, the production shingle of veteran Quebec movie producer Christian Larouche, on Monday inked a deal that will see E1 Entertainment distribute its movies in Canada and internationally.
The first film from the multiyear agreement will be Frederik D'Amour's "A vos marques ... Party 2," which is set for a June theatrical release.
Also in the Christal pipeline is Sophie Lorain's "Les Grandes chaleurs," Sylvain Guy's "Leo Huff, and another Frederik D'Amour picture, "Noemie," slated for a December release.
The supply deal with E1 Entertainment comes after Larouche encountered difficulty with longtime distribution arm Christal Films Distribution after it severed ties with domestic partners Lionsgate and Maple Pictures.
The first film from the multiyear agreement will be Frederik D'Amour's "A vos marques ... Party 2," which is set for a June theatrical release.
Also in the Christal pipeline is Sophie Lorain's "Les Grandes chaleurs," Sylvain Guy's "Leo Huff, and another Frederik D'Amour picture, "Noemie," slated for a December release.
The supply deal with E1 Entertainment comes after Larouche encountered difficulty with longtime distribution arm Christal Films Distribution after it severed ties with domestic partners Lionsgate and Maple Pictures.
- 1/26/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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