Gomorrah director Stefano Sollima delivers a terrific mob drama set among Rome’s political and criminal elite Related: There will be blood – the unmissable,final mafia point to Gomorrah is back Stefano Sollima’s brash and brutal movie is a melodrama of political corruption and gangster turf wars in Rome – set satirically at the fraught moment of spiritual crisis when Pope Benedict XVI decided to abdicate. It’s a film that could conceivably absorb worked as well, or better, and as a boxset binge on TV – indeed,Sollima also directed the acclaimed mafia series Gomorrah – but lays down the law confidently enough on the big screen: there’s a supermarket shootout and a getaway scene (following a slaying in a spa) that are handled with terrific élan.
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Source: theguardian.com