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quietearth [Film Festival 04.23.08] movie news thriller

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In running down the films which were speculated as part of the in-competition section at Cannes last week, I ran across this gem. Gomorra is based on a novel by Roberto Saviano and it's a hard hitting look into the Neopolitan criminal organization called "Camorra". In fact, it's such a heavy hitter that Saviano had to reportedly go in hiding for a while and was then granted a permanent police escort by Italy's Minister for Interior Affairs. The film "is made up of six short episodes with as many main characters, who revolve around the four-sided criminality between the port of Naples, Scampia, Castelvolturno and Terzigno." You can check out the trailer and a translation (although poor) of the synopsis after the break.

"Power, money and blood. In a world seemingly far from reality, but well-rooted in our land, these are the "values" with which the inhabitants of the province of Caserta, between Aversa and Casal di Principe, must struggle every day. Almost always you can not choose, almost always six forced to obey the rules of the system, the Camorra, and only the most fortunate can expect to lead a life of "normal". Gomorrah is a journey into the world of business and criminal Camorra opens and closes in the sign of goods, their life cycle. Goods "fresh", just born, that under the most varied forms - pieces of plastic, branded clothes, video games, watches - arriving at the port of Naples and, to be stored and hidden. And the goods now that death, from all over Italy and half of Europe, in the form of chemical waste, morchie toxic sludge, even human skeletons, are improperly "sversate" bells in the countryside, where poison, among others, the same boss who on those lands build their lavish homes and absurd - dacie Russian villas Hollywood, cathedrals of cement and marble precious - not only serve to certify reached a power, but utopias farneticanti testify."




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