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Fortapasc (2009)

Posted By: Someonelse
Fortapasc (2009)

Fortapàsc (2009)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:45:32 | 4,68 Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Italian
Genre: Crime, Drama

Giancarlo Siani, a reporter for Il Mattino, is killed with ten pistol shots in 1985. An easygoing 26 year-old, he loves his life and his work. During the last four months of his life, he goes from his home in the Vomero neighborhood to the hell of Torre Annunziata, the kingdom of crime boss Valentino Gionta. Giancarlo is investigating corruption in earthquake reconstruction efforts. Amidst the mafia, corrupt politicians, frightened prosecutors and helpless policemen, he is like a lily in the mud.

IMDB

Fortapasc is Neapolitan slang for Fort Apache, a name ruefully applied to Torre Annunziata, a small down-at-heel town near Naples which in the 80s was from top to bottom controlled, overtly and covertly, by the Camorra, and a constant battleground in their turf wars. Into this world came Giancarlo Siani, young newspaper stringer for the Naples paper Il Mondiale, seeking stories where he could, going to lengths no cynical hard-bitten journalist would to get at the truth. With his bright green golf-buggy type motor, his glasses and his joke-stickered old typewriter, he's an almost geeky, unlikely hero, but when he gets a whiff of multiple corruption in local government, law enforcement and industry, desire for justice and being a ‘journalist journalist' as opposed to those who just write what they know is safe, inevitably leads him into danger.

Fortapasc (2009)

Risi cannily lets us know at the very beginning what is to happen to Siani on that fateful night of 23 September, then shows in flashback how it all came to be, allowing us to form an attachment to the always doomed young man. The half smile with which he greets his murderers encapsulates his gentle and humorous nature, a great performance throughout by Libero de Rienzo, and a fitting tribute to a courageous man. While less universally chilling and monumental than Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's poetic and unrelenting portrait of the Camorra, this film would make a fitting companion to it, tragedy on a personalised, human scale, a view of a life full of recognisable small pleasures, hopes and setbacks, and the more moving for that.
Fortapasc (2009)

Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Director Marco Risi
- Trailer
- Backstage
Fortapasc (2009)



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