Italianamerican

Catherine and Charles Scorsese featuring in a homemade documentary and acting as themselves, Martin Scorsese´s parents. The plot is simple, the family talks about their experiences as Italian immigrants in New York among other things while having dinner at their flat on Elizabeth Street. Mother even shows us how to cook meatballs, a recipe later explained in the credits of the film. The Family, religion, the origins, Italian ancestors, life in Italy after the war, the hardships of poor Sicilian immigrants in America striving to make ends meet, all a leitmotif in Scorsese´s work.