Review of Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia (1997 TV Movie)
BELLISSIMA
20 June 2003
Warning: Spoilers
BELLA MAFIA is a moving story - which holds your interest for those with brains and intellect.

The women show power and raw emotion comes into play. Nastassia Kinski and Vanessa Redgrave are brilliant actresses when it comes to underplaying emotions and living it all through the face.

James Marsden's Luka is heinuos and totally insensate in his lunacy.

It's where Nastassia discovers Luka is her son after killing him and she buries him without revealing this secret to the other women of the Luciano clan that we see the power of the Bella Mafia. They are able to hold death defying secrets, suffer life threatening suffer losses and not betray themselves or their cause.

As Nastassia takes off her dress, the dress in which she murdered her firstborn and lights a fire out of it by his graveside, we see the Phoenix rise, an awakening of steel, the rebirth of blood causes. Only death can stop the Bella Mafia.

There is a play on all the characters but Nastassia and Vanessa Redgrave are outstanding in role as doomed lover, widow, vengeful mother/gun totting matriarch, shrewd defender of the brood and finally Head Of The Clan.

These Women Rule OK!!!

10/10
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