"A 66-minute Brechtian elocution executed with stone cold precision, Straub-Huillet's SICILY! is a reworking of Elio Vittorini's novel CONVERSATIONS IN SICILY, a man returns to Sicily, his fatherland from New York after a Homeresque absence, encounters a fruit vendor when he disembarks, several passengers on the train (one of whom decries the stink of underclass!), visits his mother and finally engages a conversation with a knife-grinder (a faux-father figure who defies conventionality, he never sharpens knives or scissors). "
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