“An extraordinary film which in many ways feels like a documentary: a mosaic of explosive raw footage that pieced together knits a profoundly disturbing portrait of organised crime in Italy today”  Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile

“There’s nothing extraneous about it, nothing excessive in its violence or its art. It’s as desolate as it needs to be and no more.”  Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle

This multi-award winning film is not an easy film to watch.  It’s subject - the hold that the Camorra  of Naples (a Mafia like organisation) has on the city and its people, is confronting, the structure is fractured and we never really get to know any of the characters, but as a piece of visceral filmmaking with a social agenda it is unparalleled, with many critics placing it in the pantheon of classic crime films.  Based on a best-selling Italian novel, whose author now enjoys permanent police protection, it tells several stories of people connected in some way or another with the Camorra.  The word that crops up most often in reviews is documentary - but this is not a documentary - it is the frightening reality of Italian organised crime, unromanticised, but transformed into art in the hope that something will be done to change the situation.

Won all the big Italian awards and the European Film Awards and also the Grand Prix at Cannes for its director.