Moon Shadow

Science and sentiment go head to head in sunny Sicily in this touching, if cliched, Italian drama about the black holes of outer and inner space. Astrophysicist Lorenzo Lo Jacono (Tcheky Karyo), who studies radiation and black holes of the astral kind, travels to the Sicilian village of his childhood to sell off the crumbling family villa. He hires local handy man Salvatore (Nino Manfredi) to fix the gaping hole in his roof. While he finds Salvatore to be full of common sense and the kind of homespun wisdom that has nothing to do with science, Lorenzo is puzzled by Sal's assistants. Michele (Paolo Sassanelli) hears voices and is sure he's being watched; Filippo (Mi...