| Overview: | "The Boss", the third chapter of the trilogy about organized crime which di Leo had started with "Milan Calibre 9" and continued with "Man Hunt", explores the Mafia world starting from the best-seller with the same title by the American writer, Peter McCurtin.
The book is just a starting point as di Leo submerges the dynamics of the plot in the historical reality of Italy during those years as well as a film of amazing narrative compactness even compared to other masterpieces made by him. It is an act of accusation and a revelation of the mechanisms used by the Mafia, from the connivance with politics and those with the police, and the powers of the ecclesiastical world which surpasses the so-called socially committed films of that period.
The sharp attacks however, did not go unnoticed and action was brought against the producer by a minister of the government who claims he was referred to by way of the character, as well as in name, as an associate of the Mafia. The Boss, dark and nihilistic, locked into the representation of a city, Palermo where it is always night, is a sort of point of no return in di Leo’s cinematographic works and is probably his most heart-felt and desperate film.
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