Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
7.2
/10
401 Ratings
A STREET IN PALERMO
Via Castellana Bandiera
Synopsis
Two cars meet up along a narrow street in Palermo, and neither driver’s in the mood to make way for the other. The town starts taking bets on who’ll give in first.
Synopsis
Two cars meet up along a narrow street in Palermo, and neither driver’s in the mood to make way for the other. The town starts taking bets on who’ll give in first.
Our take
A seemingly benign confrontation lays all the irony and violence of Italian machismo bare in this thought-provoking, dark comedy. Amusingly absurd yet terrifyingly plausible, the grotesque battle of wits at its center is a potent metaphor for the dead-end of regressive values.