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NYFF 46 (2008): Gomorrah, Afterschool
The House Next Door — ... [The 46th New York Film Festival begins September 26th, 2008 and runs through October 12th, 2008. Screening information for Gomorrah can be found here; screening information for Afterschool can be found ...

Better Luck Gomorrah
The Reeler — By John Magary Gomorrah , written and directed by Matteo Garrone (and screening Friday and Sunday at the New York Film Festival), is more panorama than story. Its landscape is the Camorra (“the System”), the brutal, all-devouring crime enterprise that dominates the Italian provinces of Naples and Caserta. The Camorra, we’re told in a press kit (and in an ominous, kind of superfluous title card at the film’s end), has been responsible for more than 4,000 deaths, and generates approximately 150 billion euros a year. Furthermore, we are told, it “has even bought shares in the ...

NYFF. Gomorrah.
GreenCine Daily — "Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah [site] is the latest in a long line of hyperlink films, like Syriana and Babel, that employ multiple storylines to weave a massive, web-like plot meant to illustrate a complex socio-political issue," writes Timothy Sun at Not Coming to a Theater Near You. "In this case, it is the Camorra, Naples’ omnipotent, omnipresent organized crime ring. Garrone’s neorealist, nearly journalistic indictment of this societal cancer follows five different story strands whose only ...