Gomorrah: The Anti-Glamour Mob Epic

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000

For most of a century, the mob movie has been a seduction. From the rise-and-fall operas of the 1930s through The Godfather and Goodfellas, organised crime on screen has arrived wrapped in tailoring, loyalty, ritual and doomed grandeur, and even the films that end in a hail of bullets tend to make the life look, for a while, magnificent. Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah (2008) was built to demolish that. It is a crime epic with the glamour surgically removed, and what it leaves behind is closer to a horror film about a place than a drama about gangsters.

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Gomorrah: The Anti-Glamour Mob Epic