Sodoma: The Dark Side of Gomorrah

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Sodoma: The Dark Side Of Gomorrah
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Sodoma - L'altra faccia di Gomorra
Directed byVincenzo Pirozzi [1]
Written byCorrado Ardone
CinematographyGiuseppe Cembalo
Edited byGiuseppe Cembalo
Music byPeppe Bruno
Release date
  • 2012 (2012)
Running time
93 min. [2]
Country Italy
LanguageItalian

Sodoma: The Dark Side of Gomorrah (Italian : Sodoma - L'altra faccia di Gomorra) is a 2012 Italian comedy Vincenzo Pirozzi. The film is a spoof of Neapolitan mafia films, in particular of Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah . [3] It won the Best Comedy Film award at the 2012 New York City International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Premise

Ciro, Marco and Ettore live in Naples. Only the Camorra offers stable employment but they need to prove they can be trusted to enter a "family". Therefore, they carry out a series of robberies but all their criminal efforts go wrong.

Cast

Release

The film was theatrically released in Italy on April 4, 2013. [7] [8]

Reception

A review at MyMovies.it commented, "The spectator of Sodoma will laugh but of a bitter laugh. The one that make you think. As always happens with comedy when it hits the mark." [9] Another review found, "Pirozzi manages to propose a surreal comedy which, while quoting numerous scenes present in the film of reference, more or less consciously reveals its absurdly tragic dynamics." [10]

A retrospective review lamented the somehow limited distribution of the film in Italian theaters. [11]

See also

Notes

  1. Nello Mascia and Fortunato Cerlino [12] play in both the film and the series.

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