Movie night with Iris.
Movies have typically glamourised the Mafia, but for the common people of Sicily, the Mafia has been a long-term waking nightmare. Photojournalist Letizia Battaglia started photographing Mafia crime scenes in her hometown Palermo during the 1970s.
Battaglia today is a vital and energetic woman in her early 80s with punky, pink hair. And her story, sexual awakening; dalliance with politics is just as engrossing. It perhaps isn't a coherent film. The first half a meandering journey, and the last half a more traditional, docu-telling of Mafia trials and retributions.
Movies have typically glamourised the Mafia, but for the common people of Sicily, the Mafia has been a long-term waking nightmare. Photojournalist Letizia Battaglia started photographing Mafia crime scenes in her hometown Palermo during the 1970s.
Battaglia today is a vital and energetic woman in her early 80s with punky, pink hair. And her story, sexual awakening; dalliance with politics is just as engrossing. It perhaps isn't a coherent film. The first half a meandering journey, and the last half a more traditional, docu-telling of Mafia trials and retributions.