If you loved The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, try At War for Love

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Pif, and they both carry the bittersweet, cozy, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What At War for Love is

Here's a film with a fairly straightforward goal: love. A New Yorker enlists in the U.S. Army to win permission from his beloved's father to marry her in Sicily. It's a shame about the Second World War going on at the same time, really.

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