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Gomorra

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In the slums of Campania, the Camorra crime syndicate has created a fortune out of cocaine, corruption and chemical waste. Some try to fight back, like teens Ciro (Ciro Petrone) and Marco (Marco Macor), who decide to steal a Camorra weapons cache in a bid to take control themselves. Others try to hide, like Pasquale (Salvatore Cantalupo), a tailor trying to get around paying protection fees. But the realization sets in: The Camorra is too large, too deeply embedded in Italy to be fought.
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Portraying organised crime with an unflinching realism, this gritty and searing Italian crime masterpiece pulls no punches.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator There is nothing grand or operatic about Gomorrah and, as a result, it is poundingly powerful. It is heartless yet gripping, off-hand yet peculiarly intimate, and courageous in the way it presents itself. Aug 23, 2018 Full Review Dave Calhoun Time Out Rated: 5/5 Mar 18, 2010 Full Review Philippa Hawker The Age (Australia) We don't get to know the characters, exactly, but we experience something more interesting: we are brought into disconcerting, almost documentary proximity with the lives they lead and the worlds they inhabit. Rated: 4/5 May 15, 2009 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Here is a film whose presentation is about stripping away the sentimentalism and romanticism associated with gangsters, as well as the subgenre of movies that depict them. Rated: 2.5 Dec 15, 2023 Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site There are interesting sociological features here, but like most gangster films, Gomorrah gets much more caught up in the scenes of violence than is healthy. Feb 13, 2021 Full Review Jason Best What's On TV The violence in Gomorrah is shocking, but there's none of the exhilaration you find in films like Scarface or Goodfellas or City of God. Instead, what you get is a terrible, gut-clenching sense of clammy dread. Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Robson C O filme narra como trabalha a Camorra, a violenta máfia napolitana, através de histórias de algumas pessoas. Assim, temos Totó, um menino pré-adolescente que faz pequenos serviços. Pasquale, um alfaiate que trabalha em fábricas têxteis clandestinas para as etiquetas da alta costura, que decide ganhar um dinheiro extra. Don Ciro, o responsável por levar dinheiro para as famílias dos que estão presos e se achava protegido. Temos Franco, que possui uma empresa para livrar dos dejetos químicos, mas não faz corretamente. E, por fim, os amigos Ciro e Boxer, que decidem se rebelar com a máfia e seguir as suas próprias regras. Em todas essas histórias, temos a mão pesada da Camorra. O filme lembra um pouco Cidade de Deus, por ilustrar bem a situação. No filme brasileiro, a violência que sempre norteou o conjunto residencial carioca. Aqui, um painel atual deste grupo criminoso. Nos dois filmes, não há o glamour dos gangsters americanos. Não há ternos bem cortados. Todos vestem roupas comuns: camisetas, bermudas, tênis. A violência é gráfica. O Estado, inexistente. Cidade de Deus e Gomorra podem se dizer filmes irmãos. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/21/25 Full Review Ben D I first viewed Gomorra in 2011 and remembered very little of it, except for the fate of Ciro a.k.a. “Sweet Pea” (Ciro Petrone). This is an entangled story of crime and violence set in the “Mezzogiorno”. However, these are not the quotable, slick figures we venerate in TV and film in America, but monsters ranging from low-brow drug-dealing, middle-brow gun-running, and high(er)-brow toxic chemical dumping villains. The characters’ appearances match the grotesquerie of their actions. We meet Ciro and Marco (Marco Macor), one of the five storylines, impersonating Tony Montana in an abandoned building in Campania — this is as close to the “good life” as anyone seems to get in this movie. The building where many of the characters live and much of the action takes place is a freaky complex (Sette palazzi) that feels simultaneously futuristic and decrepit as if it were imagined as a semi-open air beacon of communal living taken over by Mafiosi — it’s something you’d imagine leftover in colonial Africa or South America. The abject violence — even generally respected codes of victimization are violated — is intentional, as this is based on a book chronically a civil war amongst the Camorra. It’s a grim view of this “underworld” that has control over the lives of everyone around them. The stories concerning drugs and guns (not so much the chemical waste and counterfeit dresses) become a little difficult to follow. An unwritten rule of gangster moviemaking is that the gangsters, especially the leads, must die at the end, so as not to encourage youths to join. Here, from start to finish, that isn’t a problem at all. Nothing about this lifestyle is enviable or interesting. It feels like there’s a 50% chance you’ll be shot to death and buried in a pit. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/18/24 Full Review Liam D An big sweeping crime epic that has worth the length Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/28/24 Full Review TrueBlueReview I Among my favorite films. It is a must see. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/19/23 Full Review Tara C This show was horrible. Don't waste your time. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/06/23 Full Review Ari V Basic style and basic level of analysis. Not bad, nor particularly interesting/revelatory. E.g. Anyone delineating societal problems without focusing on institutions where the most wealth/power is concentrated - is missing the big picture imo. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In the slums of Campania, the Camorra crime syndicate has created a fortune out of cocaine, corruption and chemical waste. Some try to fight back, like teens Ciro (Ciro Petrone) and Marco (Marco Macor), who decide to steal a Camorra weapons cache in a bid to take control themselves. Others try to hide, like Pasquale (Salvatore Cantalupo), a tailor trying to get around paying protection fees. But the realization sets in: The Camorra is too large, too deeply embedded in Italy to be fought.
Director
Matteo Garrone
Producer
Domenico Procacci
Screenwriter
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Gianni Di Gregorio
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Fandango, RAI Cinema
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 19, 2008, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.6M
Runtime
2h 17m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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