Enzo domani a Palermo

Ciprì and Marescos delicious documentary portrays Sicilian superagent Enzo Castagna a man with some 20000 extras on his books who has worked with the likes of Loren Pasolini Rosi Coppola and Cimino indeed virtually anyone whos ever chosen to film in Palermo Its typically weird witty and wonderful partly due to its subject a selfstyled little big man who consents to be described as almighty and the greatest contributor to Italian cinema in the last 35 years The local favourite has also done time for bribery but refuses to comment on Cosa Nostra The film is as astonishing as its subject Shot in luscious bw its driven forward by an offscreen interrogator who alternates between ludicrously hyperbolic flattery and forthright questions about corruption and crime It also serves as a study of the way ethics get abandoned in the unending pursuit of fame wealth and selfesteem