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GOMORRA
Matteo Garrone

With Gomorrah, his novel published in 2006-survey on the Neapolitan mafia, the Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, 28, who works for La Repubblica and L'Espresso, has suddenly become a rich man (one million copies sold in Italy, about thirty translations) and a hunted prey. The Camorra, the furious hype around the book, has directly threatened to kill Saviano and now lives under heavy police protection, forced to continually change their place of residence. Her book paints a broad picture, and fed well documented numerous examples of the phenomenon of sprawling system Neapolitan economy, taking its rise since the activities of local clans of Campania to spread across Europe and until now 'China. For Saviano, one of the keys to understanding the Camorra, is precisely its ability to globalize, to do joint ventures with other underworld (European or African). In an interview with Cafebabel site, he declared: "The first city as the Italian mafia gave completely governed by a clan abroad, was Castel Volturno [Campania], licensed to "Raptors", a mafia clan of Lagos and Benin City in Nigeria. "


voltage. No doubt the success of the book called naturally a film adaptation, but it is nevertheless paradoxical, since reverse in the field of fiction incriminating evidence collected in reality. Stripping, by writing, the underworld of his will more or less bombastic, noting also how the chieftains are themselves fascinated by pictures of models (Scarface De Palma remains a behavioral matrix absolute), Gomorra the film, produces a curious effect of the blow. It galvanizes by springs specific to genre cinema, while attempting to synthesize five intersecting stories most of the speeches of the book. This tension between imagery, that is to say, the brightness of the graphic violence and the need of the information with what it implies back chilled through the film and will never disappear completely, even if the Filmmaker Matteo Garrone is careful not to sign, under the guise of indignation Civic, yet another clip of recruitment to join the ranks of lacanaille.


All the characters are also fully ejected or crushed by a feeder system and vampire, fattening its members to better drain after a cycle of disease. The mechanics of the corruption of values, as destruction of men who are alienated workers, affects both the aging Don Ciro - the distributor of the good works of the mafia in providing dropper her mite rotten - that Toto the boy of 13, that the circumstances lead to commit a despicable act. Naples, the port, Bay, the city and alleys of black stones, the filmmaker shows nothing, preferring to stick to the populous suburbs, including Scampia and incredible apartment blocks communicating with each other by bridges of concrete, real supermarket heaven open drug scene where, according to Saviano, a clan can win up to 500,000 euros per day.


Toxic. But these maneuvers us into the neighborhood soon in two more circles wider economic, gangrene of the legal sectors. The history of the tailor Pasquale can relay the chapters most virulent book about the links between major Italian fashion houses and hundreds of contractors funded by dirty money from the Camorra. Awareness of young graduate Roberto pulled strings in the service of a corrupt businessman, describes the ecological disaster caused by the mafia who raided the area of recycling of toxic waste. The countryside of southern Italy is transformed by their good care of all dump carcinogenic poisons from the European Union. Full of well-drawn characters and clever situations, the film lacks, however, that breath that would have, for example, allowed to rise to a panorama of universal greed, involving tainted circles of the underworld and the greed of capitalism unleashed.
Didier Peron
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Roberto Saviano (Gomorra)
Some will even speak of a sacrifice. To have done a remarkable job, Robert Saviano, 28, was sentenced to death. "freelance journalist, active in the Italian press and internet, he worked in the past newspapers such as Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno or Il Mattino. He now works for the weekly L'Espresso. Not until then did he tried to write a book. That is, since last year, done. Resulting in one of the biggest bestsellers in recent decades in Italy: more than one million copies sold to date. A work in turn became a bestseller in Spain (150 000) and Germany (200 000).
The "fault" by Roberto Saviano Gomorra called. In the empire of the Camorra. The book tells the story of the Neapolitan Mafia in recent decades, it has been witnessed in part by investigating the field. This story is done without self-censorship, that is to say by giving the names of all sponsors. All names. An avalanche of details included in a loop in the media, which has sickened a system accustomed to the omerta. The author has been working on a detailed description of this world. Everything is told in a style edge. The cry "weakens" While taking over a book denouncing a Neapolitan who saw his father fall victim to the Camorra as the story of a neutral journalist. The book is nevertheless exceptional, as shown in all the reactions in Italy. Mobilization to support R. Saviano, after his conviction killed by the Camorra, but took some time to occur. It took the intervention of great Italian intellectuals, beginning with that of Umberto Eco: "After the Rushdie case and that of Robert Redeker, it seems we can no longer express his ideas. And if, for Rushdie Redeker, the murderer could come from anywhere, we know that threat Saviano. It is important not to abandon it, "said the writer. The policies followed that call. The journalist, who now resides in Rome, is now protected, as are usually anti-Mafia judges. While acknowledging that "the Camorra has a memory Elephant and unlimited patience
Antoine Aubert (Non Fiction)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Biutiful Cauntri
a documentary by E. Calabria, A. Of Ambrosio, P. Ruggiero
(in November Renoir for the month of DOC.)

Ranchers who are losing their sheep.
Farmers who cultivate land more and more polluted. 1200
abusive discharge of toxic waste.
We're in Italy in the Naples area. In the background, a mafia contractors using trucks and metal buckets instead of guns ...
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