Naples '44

Name: Naples '44
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: November 29, 2017
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Adriano Giannini, Alan Arkin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ernest Borgnine, Keenan Wynn

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First Run Features | Release Date: November 29, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Adriano Giannini, Alan Arkin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ernest Borgnine, Keenan Wynn

Summary: In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to
survive. These notes turned intoIn 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to
survive. These notes turned into the masterpiece Naples '44. This film adaptation imagines Lewis returning to the city that charmed and seduced him many years later. This visionary reminiscence is made up of flashbacks between the places of the present that Lewis revisits and the stories of the past.
We will see in eighty minutes a thrilling and unpredictable parade of absolutely unforgettable stories and characters: women in feather hats milking cows in the rubble, statues of saints carried by hysterical
crowds attempting to stop Vesuvius erupting and impoverished professionals surviving by impersonating aristocratic uncles from Rome at funerals and weddings. But Naples '44 is also – and perhaps above all - a powerful condemnation of the horrors of war, whether just or unjust.… Expand

Director: Francesco Patierno

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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John DeFore

Dec 7, 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. Read full review

Luke Y. Thompson

Dec 7, 2017

It’s basically a high-caliber book-on-tape augmented with actual (as opposed to horror-movie fake) found footage — a missing link between full-on dramatization and simply reading the book while imagining visuals. Read full review

Derek Smith

Nov 26, 2017

It’s far too scattershot, bouncing from one topic to the next with the carelessness of someone flipping through a book and reading from a random page. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 7, 2017

At most, Naples ’44 makes a solid case for turning to Lewis’ prose and getting the full effect of his year there that way. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Nov 29, 2017

It seems less a full-fledged movie than a trailer for a book. Read full review

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