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In the Rione Sanità neighborhood of Naples, Antonio Barracano –known as “The Mayor”– is an undisputed authority amongst both common people and the Camorra, whose job is to settle disputes outside the law, even by unorthodox methods.
The Mayor of Rione Sanità: Directed by Mario Martone. With Daniela Ioia, Enzo Buonomo, Daniele Baselice, Viviana Cangiano. This particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding ...
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- Crime, Drama
- Mario Martone
- 2019-09-30
The Mayor decides to intervene to reconcile father and son and save both of them. Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s Il sindaco del rione Sanità to the cinema with a powerfully topical film that tells of the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Aug 30, 2019 · Venice Film Review: ‘The Mayor of Rione Sanità’. Mario Martone inexplicably showcases the theatrical roots of his 2017 stage production while failing to differentiate the story from...
- Jay Weissberg
Aug 31, 2019 · 31/08/2019 - VENICE 2019: Competing for the Golden Lion in Venice, The Mayor of Rione Sanità is a rereading of a great classic from Eduardo De Filippo. We met with its director, Mario Martone
Aug 31, 2019 · With The Mayor of Rione Sanità, the Neapolitan director once more creates a contact between cinema and theatre, inspired by Polanski, Fassbinder, Kurosawa and certainly Hitchcock, moving his characters in large but closed spaces, and putting them in focus with lengthy close-ups. His winning choice is to direct with a kind of freestyle rhythm ...
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THE MAYOR OF RIONE SANITÀ. Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s play Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità to the big screen, a story the director sets in the present day, using the text as an opportunity to continue to investigate reality.
