La mossa del cavallo

La mossa del cavallo

Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Produced by Palomar, RAI

2018111 min7.6 / 10

A tense period thriller about a principled outsider navigating the treacherous codes of Sicilian corruption and the mafia, caught between duty and survival.

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

Questions people ask

  • Is La mossa del cavallo scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is La mossa del cavallo sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.

  • Does La mossa del cavallo end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is La mossa del cavallo violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is La mossa del cavallo easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

62/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity19

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise95

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love90

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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