A Guide to Recognizing Household Saints and Director Nancy Savoca
Household Saints is about the way stories change in each narration, rooted in the mores of Italian American life: hotheaded conflicts over nothing, heaving sexual advances, and religious superstitions held by the people who remember the old country, and rejected by the ones who never knew it. The film is a document of culture shift, where the younger generation cuts ties with the incumbents’ customs to sculpt their own; as such, it’s a film about cycles, bookended by a prologue and epilogue set decades after its events.
