and "Black Souls" begins uneventfully enough. An early scene depicts a drug deal being negotiated with as much tension as, say, the sale of a used car. It's business as usual for the Carbones ...

In opening scenes, Luigi purchases a shipment of cocaine ... a fine score by Giuliano Taviani (“Caesar Must Die”), “Black Souls” is a sensuous journey into the heart of modern Italian ...

In “Black Souls,” mafia ties appear to be the only ... whose increasingly helpless Luciano is the pic’s true tragic heart. Scenes are allowed to build slowly, and while at first the ...