The paternal hand of the ‘Mafioso’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, satire 02/21/202202/21/2022 Sean Axmaker Alberto Lattuada’s brilliant 1962 satire of Sicily’s “paternal” mafia became the cinematic rediscovery of 2006 when it was revived and shown at the New York Film Festival.