Gianfelice Imparato, Gigio Morra, Italo Renda
A contemporary Neapolitan mob drama based on an exposé of Italy's criminal underbelly by Roberto Saviano. The non-fiction book was published in the U.S. by Farrar, Strauss & Giraux. The book has bee...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 24, 2009
Stats: 1,658 reviews
This is one of those rare ocassions where making a movie as dry as possible is the only way to tell this kind of story. Lacking any conventional narrative trick or angle, any genre convention you could expect is thrown out of the windows. No heroes, no characters to cheer for, no...( read more)
Pretty gritty stuff. Not as brutal as the hype led me to believe but this certainly isn't the Godfather, this is nasty mafia shit man! Acting and direction impeccable.
Good movie, though my expectations were higher on this one. I still think it's a must-see movie, to see how brutal and violent gang members are, and how life can be shitty sometimes.
very raw and real. intertwining stories show some of the effects of the camorra crime syndicate on people going about their lives in naples. the cutting among many characters can be a little confusing but overall the effect is powerful
Scorsese recommends Gomorra:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-13/mob-mentality
Me too.
An excellent, very thick in plot and emotions, terryfying picture. It's hard in reception, kinda brings you down, but very much worth seeing!
Gomorrah is stark and powerful filmmaking, a welcome alternative to romanticized American mob melodramas. full review
It's ugly. It's powerful. But it's hard to look away. full review
The film is a curative for the romanticism of The Godfather and Scarface. full review
The result demands a patient viewing, and maybe more than one; only after a second dose did I get the measure of [director] Garrone's mastery, and realize how far he has surpassed, not merely honored,... full review
The malignity can be oppressive -- this is a far cry from Fellini finding poignant uplift in the slums -- but the dramatic structure is complex, the details are instructive, and the sense of tragedy i... full review
Drained of energy and vigor, Gomorrah confuses gangster fantasy for art. full review
Next to HBO's The Wire, which depicted an enormous financial ladder and also brought to life the characters on every rung, the movie is small potatoes: excellent journalism, so-so art. full review
The remorseless, glamourless scenes - their businesslike realism, their shrugging fatalism, their workaday brutality - come closer than most films to identifying and depicting the "banality of evil". full review
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