Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 128 | Rotten: 12
Portraying organised crime with an unflinching realism, this gritty and searing Italian crime masterpiece pulls no punches.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 1
Portraying organised crime with an unflinching realism, this gritty and searing Italian crime masterpiece pulls no punches.
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Adapted from Roberto Saviano's controversial non-fiction book, Matteo Garrone's crime drama Gomorrah examines how organized crime reaches deep into every facet of life in Naples, Italy by telling the tale of over a dozen different characters. Among the main protagonists is a pair of wannabe thugs who take their cue from movie gangsters, a grocery-delivery boy who must learn to kill, and a criminal mastermind who plots to make a fortune while dumping toxic waste near overpopulated communities. ~
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Salvatore Cantalupo
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Gianfelice Imparato
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Maria Nazionale
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Toni Servillo
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Gigio Morra
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Salvatore Abruzzese
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Simone Sacchettino
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Ciro Petrone
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Gomorra has its own nerve, as well as the filmmaking intelligence to strip the cliches from its densely packed, authentically inhabited narrative. The new moviegoing year just got one hell of a jolt.
Top CriticThe sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort to keep up with who's who and what's going on.
Gomorrah manages to be artful without being arty.
Garrone's gloomy assessment of the new world order is painfully on target: corruption comes in many guises, and it's as impossible to stop as it is to track.
There's nothing extraneous about it, nothing excessive in its violence or its art. It's as desolate as it needs to be and no more.
An unforgettable portrayal of the unglamorous gangster life, which is often short and never sweet.
Matteo Garrone doesn't so much reinvent the gangster genre as much as he reimagines it, taking all the usual trimmings and turning them inside out.
A thrillingly bleak crime pic.
It is a full and frank indictment of a system that has not just failed but utterly decayed and is breeding more and more criminals.
Thug-life fantasies here provide lures into ruthlessly complex realities and rigmaroles - slamming characters' faces into the rug before it's pulled from beneath them. The notion that anybody could be a don dies in a blaze of energy, rage and ambition.
Despite its disjointed structure, Gomorrah comes to a narrative convergence without ever actually having to bring its stories together. Each climaxes independently, yet it all feels like one piece.
By fashioning its stories to get in as much impact as possible, mostly from the stark ugliness of their realities and their bold endings, the movie achieves a satisfying level of effectiveness.
Probably the most authentic and unsentimental mafia movie ever to come out of Italy.
Check that omerta b.s. at the door. This is all about the bottom line.
Un film à la fois lourd, tragique et hautement instructif figurant assurément parmi les plus marquants à avoir été réalisés sur le sujet.
Dicen mucho más sobre la Camorra las leyendas finales del film que las dos horas y pico que les precedieron.
The result, while admirable, is curiously flat and unengaging.
It is a challenging approach, and while there is suspense and action (including a spectacular car crash), there is frustration as a result of the regular cutting from one story to another.
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.
Could Gomorrah and Il Divo signal the return of Italian political cinema? Here's hoping.
It's a challenging approach, and while there are some terrific moments within the film, as well as suspense and action (including a spectacularly staged car crash), there's also frustration as a result of the regular cutting from one story to another.
The portrait it paints of this society in the grip of this tawdry but immensely powerful and rich organization is scary indeed.
Gomorrha transcends its medium and evidences humanity at its most despicable, and rates as an unconventional and unmissable instant classic.
The film's power in capturing some of the seemingly banal moments of everyday life punctuate with bang-bang fervor the human loss that accumulates later.
The sinewy production could almost pass for documentary %u2013 if only doco makers could get such amazing access. But that's why the film has been hailed as groundbreaking. It is also heartbreaking.
An extraordinary film which in many ways feels like a documentary: a mosaic of explosive raw footage that pieced together knits a profoundly disturbing portrait of organised crime in Italy today
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