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Martin Scorsese in Taormina on His Sicilian Heritage: Growing up ‘I Was Really Living in a Sicilian Village. It Just Happened to Be Downtown Manhattan’
Martin Scorsese in Taormina discusses his Sicilian heritage: 'growing up ‘I was really living in a Sicilian village.' It just happened to be Manhattan
Scorsese, 82, is back in Sicily after he last travelled to the Italian island in October 2024 to start shooting a doc that takes its cue from the recent discovery in Sicilian waters of the wreck of a large sunken ship called Marausa 2 dating to the third century A.D. On that occasion, he visited the town of Polizzi Generosa, home of his paternal grandparents, Teresa and Francesco Scorsese, before they immigrated to New York at the turn of the last century. A feature-length doc titled “Aldeas – A New Story,” featuring Pope Francis ‘ final in-depth on-camera interview, which will have a Sicilian component. And the second season of his documentary series, “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” that is now shooting in the town of Custonaci, in Western Sicily, site of a 15th century sanctuary.
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