This is nothing like "The Godfather." Instead it's a dramatization of Saviano's expose of Neapolitan crime as controlled by the so-called Camorra families. Director Garrone avoids glamorizing the violence as he uses five interconnecting stories to demonstrate their insidious control in all areas of daily life. Then things actually get worse as rival factions start a turf war. It's complicated keeping track of the different characters and power struggles but it's slice-of-life realism at its best. Italian with subtitles.
Matteo Garrone's controversial Gomorrah is a mob movie like no other. To lump it in the same category as Scarface or GoodFellas would be misleading. No one is going to have posters of these characters on their wall or quote their over-the-top dialogue. In fact, Gomorrahmay be the most ...Read More
Newspaper article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television; 1/1/2006; 2162+ words...Le jugement dernier ), 1961. Queen Bera, Sodome et Gomorrhe (also known as Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom e Gomorra, and The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah ), Titanus/Pathe Cinema/S.G.C./Twentieth Century – Fox, 1962. Luisa...
Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Daviau, Gertraud Steiner ; 1361+ wordsSODOM UND GOMORRHA (Die Legende von Sünde und Strafe ; The Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrah) Austria, 1922 Director: Michael Kertész (later Michael Curtiz) Production: Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, Vienna...
Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Lowry, Ed ; 2320+ words...credited) 1959 The Angry Hills ; Ten Seconds to Hell (+ co-sc) 1961 The Last Sunset 1962 Sodoma e Gomorra (Sodom and Gomorrah ); Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (+ pr) 1963 Four for Texas (+ co-pr, co-sc) 1964 Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte...
Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Baxter, John ; 1178+ words...1961 The Guns of Navarone (Thompson) (as C.P.O. Brown) 1962 Sodoma e Gomorra (Sodom and Gomorrah ; The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah ) (Aldrich and Leone) (as Astaroth); Eva (Eve ) (Losey) (as Tyvian Jones); In the French...
Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Lee, Edith C. ; 1635+ words...Oscar Wilde (The Green Carnation ) (Hughes) 1961 The Hellions (Annakin) (designs) 1962 Sodoma e Gomorra (Sodom and Gomorrah ) (Leone and Aldrich); Dr. No (Young); In the Cool of the Night (Stevens) 1964 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned...