We should probably just consider this post as a bit of a placeholder, as this film is the first in a series that we will doubtless be watching. Last year I gave Janet the first ten books in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano collection, which focuses on a Sicilian detective. Since then we discovered that Camilleri's novels inspired a television series that stretched out, off and on, for over twenty years - eventually leading to the a Young Montalbano series. It's a pretty enjoyable, and painless, way to figure out a bit about our new home, even if a lot of the humor and situations are exaggerated (or maybe they're not, it is Sicily). We watched the pilot, entitled The Snack Thief, which was interesting. Years ago I read where a famous detective author propose that in the end the success of the series is really about the detective and not the mystery he/she is solving, and Montalbano seems like an interesting character. It nothing else, the first installment hasn't frightened me away from Sicily yet.
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