Sicilian Ghost Story Gives Mafia Noir a Gothic Twist

Childhood is like a horror film in Sicilian Ghost Story.by Charles MudedeOne of the many insights in SJ Chiro's 2017 feature Lane 1974 is that childhood is always experienced like a fairy tale. And all true fairy tales are simply terrifying. There are wolves that want to eat children, witches that want to cook them, musicians that seduce them, and so on. So though there is nothing fantastic about the story in Chiro's film (a 13-year-old girl rebels against her hippie mother and embarks on a jour