The Stranger

This 1962 Italian release is charming then funny then sad. An exuberant Sicilian son—who moved to Milan to become a factory efficiency expert—takes his new family to meet his toothless parents, mustachioed sister, and the local Don, who ensnares him in an improbable plot. It's sweet with a bitter moral, like crushed aspirin at the heart of a bonbon—whether in industrial Milan or mafioso Sicily, we cannot escape being part of vast machines. (Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, 781-5755. See Movie Times, p. 89, for details.) by Brendan Kiley

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