By Natasha Senjanovic
ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - Powerful, stripped to its essence and featuring a spectacular cast of mostly nonprofessionals, "Gomorrah," goes beyond Quentin Tarantino's gratuitous violence and even Martin Scorsese's Hollywood sensibility in depicting the everyday reality of organized crime's foot soldiers.
The characters of the five stories in Matteo Garrone's sixth feature film, all work for the Camorra -- the Neapolitan "mafia" behind more than 4,000 murders in 30 years in Italy, and countless illegal activities -- and besides being extremely dangerous are relentless, petty and anything but wise.
Success at home is virtually guaranteed for "Gomorrah" as it's based on Roberto Saviano's eponymous 2006 best-seller (1.2 million copies sold, translated into 33 languages) and the buildup to its release at Cannes -- where it shared the Grand Prix runner-up prize -- have created a huge buzz in Italy.
... "Gomorrah" is one of the rare dramatic films to come out of Italy in recent years that has the appeal to play well theatrically, at least in Europe, and in festivals worldwide. In the U.S., it should play to the widest possible range of art house audiences looking for a thinking person's mafia movie.
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