Serena Rossi and Giampaolo Morelli are the protagonists and partners in crime in “Ammore e Malavita”, the third Italian film competing in the 74th Film Festival which was presented yesterday at Venice. The Roman filmmakers Manetti Bros. direct a real original musical which alternates between crime, love and Neapolitan dialect, combining comedy, music and action.
The movie tells the story of Ciro (played by Morelli), an unscrupulous killer of the Camorra sired to don Vincenzo (Carlo Buccirosso) and to his wife, donna Maria (Claudia Gerini).
One day, his fate crosses that of Fatima (Serena Rossi), a young beautiful and dreamy nurse. The girl, who knows too much and saw too many things, is Ciro’s intended victim and, at the same time, his great teen romance who never forgot.
The screenplay recalls a very different Naples from that of “Gomorra”: the Manetti brothers, in fact, paint a city made of great contradictions on which they ironize, but also full of feelings and emotions.
A coloured feature, with pop and vaguely kitschy invasions, that hazards and amuses.
