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Naples '44

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Robert Abele Los Angeles Times 12/07/2017
Haphazardly assembled in tone, with no clear reason to include lengthy clips from Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" or Liliana Cavani's "The Skin" (among others) aside from their story-positioned relevance to the city at the time. Go to Full Review John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter 12/07/2017
The doc delivers enough arresting Neapolitan moments that many viewers will consider tracking down the source material - still in print, nearly four decades after Lewis published it in 1978. Go to Full Review Luke Y. Thompson Village Voice 12/02/2017
In the end, the most important point made is that postwar occupation is hard, hard work...one you hope today's stateside politicians will someday take on board. Go to Full Review James Walton The Spectator 09/05/2018
At first, this mosaic technique was a little distracting. But soon it started to create a hallucinatory quality that felt entirely appropriate for a city where humanity was reduced to something approaching the elemental. Go to Full Review Kent Turner Film-Forward.com 12/06/2017
3/5
The time-traveling visuals are gracefully propelled by Benedict Cumberbatch's narration of Lewis's eloquent and precise prose, with its sotto voce observations intact. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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paul d @PaulusLoZebra 11/11/2021 Francesco Patierno's Naples '44 is an ode to an outstanding, deeply humane book. I've read the book twice, and loved it. I applaud the movie's ambitious structure, the assembly of a mosaic of vignettes to tell its story rather than doing it as a straightforward narrative. I also like its dreamy quality and the interspersing of contemporary shots, archive documentary footage and clips from many fictional films. Despite my admiration, I can't imagine how a viewer who has not read the book could make much sense of it. See more andy p 01/07/2020 a mix of war footage along with modern day and some scenes from "Catch 22". See more l g 11/19/2019 enjoyed the narration for sure. different kind of flick, found it on Epix during a free promo. See more Read all reviews
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Francesco Patierno

Director

Benedict Mason

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Adriano Giannini

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Director
Francesco Patierno