Gian Maria Volonte gives a beautifully insinuating performance as polyglot gangster Luciano in Francesco Rosi’s intriguing, underrated chronicle of multi-generational gangsterism, Lucky Luciano, the subject of today’s Foreign-Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs’, where better is expected of me, apparently (see comments).
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