82-year-old Barry Levinson, a lovable Hollywood "maker" is making a come-back. His greatest movies date back to the 1980s, with Good Morning Vietnam (1987) and Rain Man (1988). Absent from French cinema theaters for the past 10 years, after his last films were released straight to DVDs and streaming, he is back and piquing curiosity with The Alto Knights.

Not only does Robert De Niro play one of the two main roles, he also plays the other. Knowing the number of flops Bob has starred in over the years, and with all due respect to him, we'll leave it to malicious minds to wonder whether this might mathematically double the possibility of another.

In any case, he plays two of the most formidable figures in the American Mafia, deputies in their early years of the benefactor of humanity Lucky Luciano, who ended up serving over 25 years in prison at the end of the 1940s.

On one side, Vito Genovese, Neapolitan, paranoiac, machine-like killer, personal friend of Benito Mussolini, and soon locked up until his death, in 1969, for heroin trafficking. And on the other side, the Calabrian Frank Costello, more anxious and diplomatic by nature, Luciano's heir at the head of the family, and victim in this capacity, in 1957, of an assassination attempt by his childhood friend Genovese, who had ceded the position to him before his escape and wanted it back.

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