Fri 7 Nov – Sat 8 Nov 5.15 & 8.15 Sun 9 Nov 8.00 Mon 10 – Tues 11 Nov 8.00
Dir: (2008) Italy 2hr16min.
Cast: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato
Director Matteo Garrone's Gomorrahhas been compared to TV’s The Wire – and praise doesn’t come much higher. Winner of this year’s Cannes Grand Prix, it describes the breathtaking and terrifying complexities of life among the brutal Camorra gangsters of Naples and Caserta. It's a sweeping, stirring film that has the shoot-and-loot tension of the best crime cinema but also has the scope and serious intent of great drama. We follow five separate stories through the slums and streets.
“Garrone’s direstion makes incredible use of desolate locations and the acting is impeccable” Nick James, Sight and Sound.
Roberto Saviano is under death threats for denouncing the criminal deeds of the Camorra in his book Gomorra, translated and read all over the world. His freedom is under threat as well as his autonomy as a writer, his chances to meet his family, to enjoy a social life, to have part in the public life, to travel in his own country.
A young writer, guilty to have investigated the organized crime revealing its methods and its structure is forced to live an hidden, underground life, while the Camorra bosses send him death threats from their jails ordering him to stop writing for La Repubblica, his newspaper, and to keep silent. The State must do every effort to protect Saviano and to defeat the Camorra. But this is not a mere police case. It's a problem of democracy. Saviano's safe freedom concerns everyone of us as citizens.
Signing this appeal we intend to take charge of it, as a personal commitment, urging the State at the same time to take on its responsibility, because it's intolerable that something like this could happen in Europe in 2008.
and the link is:
http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2008/appelli/saviano/
