Suburra

Esperaba (en vano) una experiencia tan fuerte el año pasado de Estrictamente criminal y Legend. Ya veo que los italianos juegan a las cartas de la mafia en niveles diferentes a los británicos y estadounidenses. Un evento malvado menor, que conduce a un apocalipsis que engullirá y destruirá a todos. El sentimiento de impotencia, la imposibilidad de evitar ser atrapado en la red del crimen se convierte aquí en una furiosa locura. Suburra es una película de género, en Cannes no la celebrarían tanto como lo habían hecho con Gomorra de Garrone que era más del cine arte, pero es súper cautivadora y trabaja muy bien con los personajes. Personajes excelentemente interpretados. Los caminos de la historia son familiares en algunos momentos, pero nunca llegan a ser clichés. El uso de la banda sonora de los mayores éxitos de M83 es ​bizarro, y tal vez por eso es aún más impresionante. Y por ellos me decidí por la quinta estrella. (07.03.2016)

A film blurring the boundaries between concepts such as power, corruption, the church, good intentions, the mafia, usurious gangs, politics, interests, small/large fish, money, etc. Sollima continues in a style he has already successfully used in the Gomorrah series, and so this Gordian knot of destinies from the far side of Rome on the other side of Rome leads confidently and in terms of style towards a complex criminal movie. In this respect it can't deny "gomorrah's roots "(whether book, serial or movie). Like the influence of the duo Tropa de Elite or The Wire. A well-thought-out script (perhaps only the indicated church line was unused and therefore pointless), the actors, the hypnotic camera and the Martinez’s soundtrack, all this is at the highest level. The fact that it is "only" a kind of pilot for the upcoming series. It is a crime series that is one of the best ever created in this genre in recent years. And in this genre department a lot of amazing staff have been done. (02.01.2016)

Weird movie. Nice stylization, amazing soundtrack (the best of the year!), wild sex and interesting narrative style, but there were a few things that bothered me. The running time is excessive, there is no main character, only supporting characters, and unless I have someone to root for, a movie can't keep me glued to my seat. Violence and action were also scarce here. A decent gangster flick. Probably not my cup of tea. 60%. (28.12.2015)

It’s an audio-visually over-stylized, soft-spoken, yet more than eloquent fresco about the dark side of the eternal city that manages a quantum of characters, unprecedented violence, and metaphorical parables. Some of the threads could still use an extra knot at the end, but it is still an intense and exhausting viewing experience in the best sense. (15.01.2017)

Every now and then, I watch something that leaves me speechless. I’m so bewitched – in a good way – that I’m completely smitten. I had this exact feeling after watching the contemporary gangster movie Suburra. The harsh fates of individual characters of different standings are connected by a monstrous construction of a future complex with a casino on the edge of Rome in such a precise way that I was dumbstruck. The directors have skillfully incorporated interesting characters into the vicious cycle of the mafia history and by doing so, they closed an important chapter of the contemporary Italian underground. Some of the scenes were more brutal, some of them less. But all of them were predominated by this disgusting loss of humanity that was always supported by a strange unearthly music of the French band M38 and it amplified the entire story, which felt as if it was happening on a different planet altogether. (08.08.2016)