Italy

Fireworks

By Bobby LePire | January 2024

Writer-director Giuseppe Fiorello and co-writer Andrea Cedrola’s moving drama, Fireworks, is set in 1982 in Sicily. Gianni (Samuele Segreto) works at his stepfather’s…

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