Il traditore

Il traditore opens with the imaginary mafia dreamed up by Hollywood: ostentatious parties and Sicilian songs, the faces of the family empire all lined up. Except that by focusing on the repentant Tommaso Buscetta—Judge Falcone’s ’mole’ at the heart of the Palermo Maxi Trial—the fiction manages to deconstruct the myth, thus restoring the real.

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