Gomorrah
CRIME is a way of life in Naples.
Award-winning Italian hit Gomorrah offers a searing, insider’s account of the way Mafia organisation the Camorra infects every level of Neapolitan society.
It is a disease that touches everyone from the rich and respectable to the poor and hungry.
Based on a blistering bestseller, Gomorrah adopts a mosaic-like structure as it covers five different stories, including the haute-couture tailor Pasquale (Salvatore Cantalupo), who dares to moonlight for a Camorra rival, naive adolescent Toto (Salvatore Abruzzese), who believes that joining the Camorra will earn him respect and status and gun-totin’ tearaway pals Marco (Marco Macor) and Ciro (Toni Petroni), who think they can operate independently and live to tell the tale.
The fractured focus is something of a liability at times but this is still a powerful, eye-opening insight into a toxic, dog-eat-dog world.
OUR VERDICT: 4/5
(Cert 15; 137 mins)