The Traitor (2019 film)

The Traitor (Il traditore) is a 2019 internationally co-produced biographical drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss turned pentito.

Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Buscetta, alongside Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi and Luigi Lo Cascio. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 63% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 6.25/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".