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21/05/2021 - Ascanio Malgarini and Christian Bisceglia direct a well-made gothic fairy-tale set in Messina on the eve of the devastating 1908 earthquake

film profile], a well-made gothic fairy-tale unfolding in Messina, Sicily, during two distinct periods: the time just before the devastating earthquake of 1908 which reduced the town to rubble, and the present day, which sees the lost souls who were buried under the town’s ruins over a century earlier returning to avenge their deaths, not least the titular Cruel Peter, a well-groomed and smartly dressed “devil child” who nurtures an unbridled passion for pocket knives. (The article conti...