"Nine Good Teeth"- Small Independant Documentary- 104-year-old Italian-American
Grandmother
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Grandmothers
and Grandfathers are such wonderful creatures. Nonnas
are especially so. Unmatched in any other Heritage.
This is a
funny, surprising and quite remarkable film about a 104-year-old
Italian-American grandmother, whose chronicle started at 96.
'NINE
GOOD TEETH'
"Nine
Good Teeth" is a documentary that proves that if you look at what might
seem an ordinary life, you can find an extraordinary story.
Such
is what director Alex Halpern finds in this funny,
surprising and quite remarkable film about his 104-year-old Italian-American
grandmother, Mary Mirabito Livernese
Cavielere, whose history he started chronicling at
age 96.
Toss
in a bit of Martin Scorsese and John Waters, and you might expect this kind of
tale, but it's all true, right down to infidelity, murder, death, love, the mob
and beat poet Jack Kerouac.
Cavielere emerges as a fiercely independent, unsentimental woman who
survives two marriages, the deaths of her husbands, son and sisters and worse.
But she remains clear-eyed enough she can speak sharply about what comes with
death and practices lying in state in the gown she's already picked out.
Told
in interviews, with archival material and old film, the story travels from the
"Nine
Good Teeth,"
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