Nothing is sacred in this trilogy of tales by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, filmmakers from Palermo with a definite taste for the subversive (see Cinico TV, April 28). Their work is an unsettling mixture of theater of the absurd with echoes of Pasolini and Buñuel. This darkly humorous passion play revolves around a bizarre cast trapped in a grotesquely distorted world. With side trips into psychosexual and religious extravanganzas, the film poses a manic meditation on the death of God and the bleakness of the human condition. Ciprì and Maresco's work is closely related to the black humor and and tragic metaphysical dimensions of Sicilian theater; it is a cinema of the poor that ranks among the most extreme film forms.