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Day 5: Live from Cannes: Organized Crime in an Organized Fashion in ‘Gomorrah’

Apart from the Cannes opener the consensus is: all films are finding critics to help champion their film – meaning there is not one film that has broken from the pack. Today’s early morning screening of Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra can be added to this pack.

Apart from the Cannes opener the consensus is: all films are finding critics to help champion their film – meaning there is not one film that has broken from the pack. Today’s early morning screening of Matteo Garrone‘s Gomorrah can be added to this pack. Garrone masterfully details the mafia world via six different point of views – offering a realistically drawn picture of what is going down there. Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, this is a
contemporary look at the Neapolitan mob and an expose of Italy’s criminal
underbelly and I sincerely hope that U.S audiences get to see this film.

Gomorra Cannes

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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