Mafioso, 1962

I saw a great Italian movie this weekend. Mafioso! Made in the year of my birth. It's about a Sicilian car plant manager, Nino, who takes his blonde, Milanese wife and 2 blonde daughters home to meet his Sicilian relatives. One review said it was like Meet the Parents meets the Godfather and that about says it. If you add the Hills Have Eyes in there too. The Sicilian family are all feasting on piles of squid cooked in their own ink, and lambs intestines, much to the disgust of Nino's wife. Nino's sister has one eyebrow and a mustache and furry arms. She's been "engaged" for 2 years to Domenico, who won't let her go to the beach because she "embarrasses" him. Nino's sophisticated city wife wants to help her out, so she waxes her. After the wax job, of course, she's beautiful. "You'd better get married before they grow back" her brother says.