Sicilia! is a 1999 Italian black-and-white film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Sicilia! follows a man returning to visit his homeland of Sicily, after living in New York City for many years. The film is an adaptation of Elio Vittorini's anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, which was first published in 1941.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa's documentary on Straub and Huillet, Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (alternately translated into English as Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? or Where Lies Your Hidden Smile?), was filmed while they were editing Sicilia!.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Sicily (/ˈsɪsᵻli/ SISS-i-lee; Italian: Sicilia [siˈtʃiːlja]; Sicilian: Sicilia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy officially referred to as Regione Siciliana.
Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean. It extends from the tip of the Apennine peninsula, from which it is separated only by the narrow Strait of Messina, towards the North African coast. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which, at 3,350 m (10,990 ft), is the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.
The earliest archeological evidence of human dwelling on the island dates from as early as 12,000 BC. At around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies, and for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Greek–Punic and Roman–Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily frequently changed hands, and during the early Middle Ages, it was ruled in turn by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans who created the Kingdom of Sicily subsequently ruled by Hohenstaufen dinasty, for a short period by Angevins, later by Iberians dinasties, by the Austrians for a brief time, and then finally unified under the Bourbons with Naples, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Following the Expedition of the Thousand, a Giuseppe Garibaldi-led revolt during the Italian Unification process and a plebiscite, it became part of Italy in 1860. After the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region.
Sicilia was the first province acquired by the Roman Republic, organized in 241 BC as a proconsular governed territory, in the aftermath of the First Punic War with Carthage. It included Sicily and Malta, but not the city of Syracuse, on the east coast. (Syracuse remained an independent ally of Rome until after the Second Punic War).
During the Second Punic War, Syracuse was allied with Hannibal, but was taken by the Roman commander Marcellus in 212, and was absorbed into the already existing province. It was divided into two quaestorships, Syracuse and Lilybaeum. The Latinizing of the island continued, though the Greek element never entirely disappeared.
It was very important during the republican period for its role in supplying grain to the city of Rome, however it started to lose importance with the conquest of Africa and especially with the annexation of the Ptolemaic kingdom. Nevertheless, the province was to regain its importance centuries later, when Rome lost control over these areas and was forced to turn back to Sicily for her needs.
Oh yes babe, our love is everlasting
and I'll always be there
Remember I tell you that
Ooh ooh Ooh ooh ahhhhhh
You're all I need, you brighten up my world
We'll always be, our life is our love
Let me know you're right and the perfect soul
Plus the moon and stars the nation behold
[CHORUS:]
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you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Not ah day doh pass and she no tell me say she love me oh oh
and every night she mek sure say ah she ah kiss and love me
She's got this attitude such magnitude its her security
in defence of her lover and I know that is her jelousy
Especialy when she's with me, that's what I love to see
fine style and she just won't let go of me
People will be like Ahh! isn't that lovely
there so close and cuddlin nuttin in the world can trouble we
[CHORUS:]
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
When everytime I'm late, then she gonna text me
Whoa she complain oh tonight she wanna sex me
She always ah say no other girl can get me,
she nah go lef me, whoa from Jah bless me
Oh darlin girl, baby you're so sexy,
the good things about you that's what intrest me
I ain't gonna do no wrong, its love and honesty
Your relationship thats the best yah
[CHORUS:]
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Not ah day doh pass and she no tell me say she love me oh oh
and every night she mek sure say ah she ah kiss and love me woo
She's got this attitude such magnitude its her security
in defence of her lover and I know that is her jelousy
Especialy when she's with me, that's what I love to see
fine style and she just won't let go of me
People will be like Ahh! isn't that lovely
there so close and cuddlin nuttin in the world can trouble we
[CHORUS:]
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
Oh girl you got it goin just for me
you're my love treat you respectfully
When everytime I'm late, then she gonna text me
Whoa she complain oh tonight she wanna sex me
She always ah say no other girl can get me,
she nah go lef me, whoa from Jah bless me
Oh darlin girl, baby you're so sexy,
the good things about you that's what intrest me