Synopsis
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
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Cast
- Toni ServilloFranco
- Gianfelice ImparatoDon Ciro
- Maria NazionaleMaria
- Salvatore CantalupoPasquale
- Gigio MorraIavarone
- Marco MacorMarco
- Salvatore AbruzzeseToto
- Ciro PetroneCiro
- Salvatore RuoccoBoxer
- Carmine PaternosterRoberto
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
The fingerprints of the Camorra are everywhere, this film wants us to know, and its grip is lethal. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Powerful, stripped to its very essence and featuring a spectacular cast (of mostly non-professionals), Matteo Garrone's sixth feature film Gomorra goes beyond Tarrantino's gratuitous violence and even Scorsese's Hollywood sensibility in depicting the everyday reality of organized crime's foot soldiers. - 91
The A.V. Club
Gomorrah takes place in a world where decency can't take root and we can only watch in horror as crime overwhelms society's most vulnerable-- women, children, law-abiding citizens, and the conscientious few who want to get out of the game. - 90
Salon
This film never feels like copycat Americana to me. Its vision of the bleak, ruined, urban-cum-rural landscape of Naples and environs is distinctively European and postmodern, redolent of the spiritual and physical desolation Antonioni captured so memorably in "Red Desert." - 80
Empire
A sombre, slow, but well-paced study of organised crime in urban Naples that leaves a very grim taste in the mouth. - 80
L.A. Weekly
The five interwoven narratives in this visceral but disciplined and beautifully acted movie show to devastating effect how ordinary men and women -- and especially vulnerable boys desperate for masculine role models -- get caught up in the seductive violence and are ruthlessly destroyed by the network's hardened henchmen. - 80
Variety
Utilizing a mesmerizing documentary style that studiously avoids glamorizing the horrors, Garrone cherrypicks episodes from Saviano's muckraking tract, building to a chillingly matter-of-fact crescendo of violence, though interwoven tales tend to dissipate the full force of the criminal Camorra families' insidious control. - 80
Village Voice
This corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like "Mean Streets" cubed.
