The pain of the Macaluso sisters There is no mystery, there is only pain. Perhaps this word could be called the title of the film, or left as it is in the original. In any case, "Macaluso Sisters" doesn't get any worse than the uninterpreted title. A year after the success at the Venice Film Festival 2020 (film critics of Italy called the “sisters” the best film, and noted the entire female cast /, the picture still gets to the Russian box office. Perhaps planned for release in February this year, the film sailed on one of the ships across the Tyrrhenian Sea? Or are you stuck in a beautiful Italian place? One thing is for sure - I always look forward to such festival paintings. Anytime and in any quantity. It doesn’t matter how long it takes.
It is from the views of the sea that the film begins, when the sisters, still young, try to prolong the wall of their apartment in the hope of seeing it. This stiffened hole, sealed with new wallpaper years later, is one of the parallels of the film, in which the sisters are shown from the youngest years to wrinkled old age. The course of their difficult life should be monitored closely, so as not to miss anything and understand the nature of each. It is amazing how subtle and fitting the type, director Emma Dante was able to pick up actresses for all three of their life cycles in the film.
Sisters of different years, five, grow up without parents in the backwaters of Palermo. They have pigeons in the attic of their homes, they dream of more. Looking into the deep, like the sea, eyes of the elder and listening to the desires of the average, with each next minute of timing, you involuntarily think about how your own life will develop. It's scary how fast it's going. Scary about what trace will remain after death - a white dove in the sky or a brown-yellow spot on the wall from old pushed furniture?
“Macaluso Sisters” torment the viewer with sudden memories and anxiety of old age. They torture themselves because of disobedience, unfulfilled dreams and fatal mistakes. But thinking and looking at it is important.