Saturday 25 February 2012

Romanzo Criminale (IT, 2005)

Lengthy, credible, interesting, well-made account of the Banda della Magliana grip on Rome's criminal underworld for over a decade.

Flashes of key contemporary strategy of tension events - Aldo Moro's assassination, the 1980 bombing of Bologna rail station, assassination attempt on Pope John II - do not serve a needless "meaningful" "historical context", but rather hint at the Banda's possible/likely involvement in them, peripheral or otherwise.

A worthy, substance-over-style Italian export.

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