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MovieMail's Review
These stories featuring Andrea Camilleri’s Sicilian inspector are delivered with all the quiet skill that is the speciality of European filmmakers in this field, says Barry Forshaw.
Montalbano’s time may be coming. This stylish Italian series, shown on BBC4, features one of the few foreign coppers yet to break through in Britain. A police procedural based on the novels by Andrea Camilleri, it is generally light in tone and delivered with the quiet skill that has always been a speciality of European filmmakers in this field.
The Sicilian copper (charismatically played by Luca Zingaretti) sports a laser-sharp mind, and is a gourmet whose mind frequently strays to food. Most of all, we know his stamping ground: the beautiful, sleepy territory of Vigàta. And there is the heat – always the heat. As these first four episodes show, Montalbano has a way of finding a clandestine relationship between a host of crimes. These involve dirty doings within the Sicilian Mafia and respectable business institutions.
While the characterisation here is as adroit as one could wish, it’s the ingenious plotting that remains Montalbano’s key ingredient.
Introduction from Dr. Eric Haywood, Head of Italian Studies, University College, Dublin.
Film Description
Four episodes of Inspector Montalbano - the Italian crime drama based on the series of novels by Andrea Camilleri.
Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) plays a key role maintaining law and order in the town of Vigata in Sicily. Navigating his way around the fraught terrain of the Italian justice system isn't the only issue faced by Montalbano - his dual indulgences, food and his girlfriend, Livia (Katharina Bohm), often threaten to derail him. The episodes, which comprise the first two series, are: 'The Snack Thief', 'The Voice of the Violin', 'The Shape of Water' and 'The Mystery of the Terracotta Dog'.
