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rate as one of the best exposés of how cities truly operate: the incestuous relationships between the wealthy and politicians. Like "Z," this film manages to voice a strong political opinion without creating a false, boring, or preachy cover story: this is an exciting drama with powerful performances, including a surprise one by Rod Steiger as the building magnate and king-maker of Naples (Italy, not Florida.....).
A building collapses with loss of life, including that of a young child, but a young city councilman cannot find a city building inspector or planner that will help him unearth any information to shed light on it. As he pursues the issue, against the most powerful elements in the city, he manages to shake the foundations of the powerful but with unforeseen results.
Francesco Rosi, one of Italy's most under-appreciated directors, has fashioned a beautiful little film which, as a former newspaper reporter in two very different towns, I agree has direct application to different places, different times.
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Hands Over The City, which is first rate, I agree.
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... Il Divo.
So a shade of a shade.
Gamorra and Il Divo make for one hell of a double bill but one is drained by the end of it.
J.B.
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Nosferatu, of course......that hadn't occurred to me but it's apt insight. Thanks.
What other thoughts do you have of it?
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white collar crime + white collar crime.
Gomorrah is street.
parody?
Rod Steiger, on the other hand, gives an immensely powerful performance which is fun to contrast with Brando's "Godfather."
I think that was an intentional result of his approach to the part. The highly stylized portrayal of a such a character's evolving psychology over 30 years. All the major characters inhabited dramatic parody. All of them are brilliantly insane and brittle to various degrees. This is a very complex, obsessively crafted movie on every technical level.To my eye both Gomarrah and Il Divo - especially the latter - brought something fresh and new to Italian film. They are culture laid bare, in a most personal and contemporary way. I was reminded of Rocha.
I've watched both multiple times and they still deliver an absolutely delicious and weighty experience. Both are a perfect conjunction of art and entertainment.
Gomorrah is probably the more "approachable". What a great bookend for The Godfather it makes. No great character to match Brando but it immediately and certainly projects itself into that league of storytelling.
Steiger is an old favorite. His barely contained nerves-on-sleeve intensity fits in with the Italians well. I was unaware of that film/performance until a couple years ago.
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five minutes before the explosion. Amazing.
Very good points about "Il Divo" and "Gamorrah." I'll be seeing both again in the near future. Finally, I've got my Netflix list under thirty!
..your list is under 30. I stay maxed out at 500.
of my Netflix available selections. I probably have forty saved on Netflix which aren't yet available from it. I wish they'd increase their foreign selections; some very good dvds have been out for quite awhile which it doesn't have. I sure don't want to buy them @ $15-30 bucks a pop.
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