NY Film Festival | Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah

Italy’s oldest organized criminal organization isn’t the Sicilian Mafia — often glamorized in pop-films like The Godfather or Scarface — it’s the Neapolitan Camorra: an underground network rumored to be rooted in the Spanish prison gangs of the Middle Ages. The stories of these families -– their hostile takeovers and volatile alliances — are the subject of director Matteo Garrone’s bleak docu-style film, Gomorrah.

Don’t expect Al Pacino-esque bravado. Based on journalist Roberto Saviano fictionalized muckraking bestseller of the same name, Gomorrah exposes a deadly web of tangled stories — teenage assassins, toxic waste, corrupt businessmen, and handmade Italian suits. And though the plot may confuse, who can resist two virile Nepalese boys in soiled briefs pumping their machine guns into the water?

Winner of the Cannes film festival Grand Prix, and the official selection for best foreign film for next year’s Academy Awards, Gomorrah screens at the New York Film Festival on Friday, 10/3 and Sunday, 10/5.

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