The article describes Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah", based on the best selling novel of Matteo Saviano, as a film that meets the recurring need in Italian cinematic culture for a prestige literary adaptation in charge of conveying an important message to a large audience. It is also critically discussed the alleged relationship between "Gomorrah" and the Italian neorealist tradition, as it has been by several critics and reviewers: it is argued that "Gomorrah"'s is rather a carnival, grotesque realism, through which plurivocal elements (Scorsese's gangster movies, Lucarelli TV shows, "The Sopranos", and the like) are merged.
P. Noto (2011). Gomorrah. BRISTOL : Intellect.
Gomorrah
NOTO, PAOLO
2011
Abstract
The article describes Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah", based on the best selling novel of Matteo Saviano, as a film that meets the recurring need in Italian cinematic culture for a prestige literary adaptation in charge of conveying an important message to a large audience. It is also critically discussed the alleged relationship between "Gomorrah" and the Italian neorealist tradition, as it has been by several critics and reviewers: it is argued that "Gomorrah"'s is rather a carnival, grotesque realism, through which plurivocal elements (Scorsese's gangster movies, Lucarelli TV shows, "The Sopranos", and the like) are merged.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
