The title “Gomorrah” is at once metaphorically apt and tonally misleading. In referencing the Biblical city destroyed by God for its sinfulness, Roberto Saviano’s best-selling non-fiction posited its own setting, Naples, as some kind of present-day equivalent. A city ruled and consequently ravaged by the Camorra, the notoriously brutal crime syndicate that has reportedly been […]
REVIEW: “Gomorrah” (****)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:07 am · October 2nd, 2008
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Garrone on ‘Gomorrah’: “It’s not real, but it’s true.”
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:23 pm · September 30th, 2008
Viva Italia, is all I have to say. In the past 48 hours, I’ve been lucky enough to see the two films that have widely been heralded as marking a renaissance for the Italian film industry, a world cinema titan that had been lying dormant for a couple of years. No more. One of them […]
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