A realistic view of Italy’s mafia

Nominated for five European Film Awards and Grand Prize winner at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, “Gomorrah” being shown at the Jacob Burns Film Center, gives an unflinching, gripping look at organized crime in modern-day Naples. This documentary-style film strips away the romantic conventions of modern-day gangster films and reveals the darker truths of a shadowy, ever- present underworld. Based ...