IFC picks up Cannes’ Grand Jury Prize winner ‘Gomorrah’

For the most part, domestic rights on many of Cannes’ film titles have been split among the IFC and SPC. Now the IFC Films can claim they have been the busiest of buyers claiming the rights to Gomorrah. The film was a hit among many critics including IONCINEMA.com’s own. Some people thought the five plot storyline might be too difficult to grasp for U.S audiences but I beg to differ. Apart from the fact that it deals directly with a subject matter that many will find alluring (the inner workings of the Mafia with a full description), I thought the pacing is a key, alluring factor that makes the mutiple story and character study very digestible.

The “2nd place film” is directed by Matteo
Garrone is based on the best seller novel about power, money and blood: the basic “values” that the residents of the
Province of Naples and Caserta, have to face every day. They hardly ever have a
choice, and are almost always forced to obey the rules of the “system”, the
Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a “normal” life. Five
stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and
apparently imaginary world, but one which is deeply rooted in reality.