Household Saints (1993)

We’re at the end of week four this January and that means the last discussion in what we’ve dubbed “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY”. We’re discussing a film that got a 4K re-release in independent theaters last year and is available on DVD over at Kino-Lorber if you’re interested in such things. Nancy Savoca’s first three films didn’t incinerate the box office but it’s with great pleasure that we watch a reflect on some pretty detailed character pieces after all these years and they deserve to be seen and discussed. Today we talk “HOUSEHOLD SAINTS” from 1993, a soft-psychedelic tale that ranges from feelings of folklore and loops back into modern trappings before it cracks the folklore wall once again. It stars Tracy Ullman, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lily Taylor, Judith Molina, Michael Rispoli & Michael Imperioli. The legend of how the sausage maker won his wife in a card game is just the beginning. Perhaps in every family, every neighborhood, every street in Little Italy is the story of a local legend achieving sainthood. It might be nothing much more than a tragic case of psychosis, but these are probably the first sausages that cure gout instead of causing it. Hear us tale the tale as we say goodbye to Nancy Savoca’s Italian hearts.

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