'The Immortal' Review: An offshoot of the TV series 'Gomorrah,' this HBO Max feature film directed by and starring Marco D’Amore follows the life and near death of Ciro, a member of an Italian crime organization
Making the point of its title, “The Immortal” begins with its hero being shot to death—or so viewers will be led to think, as they watch mobster Ciro Di Marzio descend into the Bay of Naples. Anyone familiar with Ciro, aka “L’Immortale,” will suspect that something else is happening. Especially after his “corpse” resurfaces in Latvia, haunted by Neapolitans both alive and dead.
One can easily dig into the feature-length “Immortal” without having watched its immediate antecedent, the long-running series “Gomorrah,” a European production that has aired in the U.S. on Sundance TV and HBO. Or, for that matter, having read the 2006 nonfiction book by Roberto Saviano, which earned him enormous acclaim, awards, death threats and 24-hour police protection. It does feel true that Mr.
One can’t say quite the same about “The Immortal.” It contains dramatic moments that aspire to grand opera. At the same time, the Latvia it visits is decidedly unromantic, a well-forested, postindustrial plain alive with grudges that predate Vladimir Putin; the Latvians themselves are beleaguered, resentful and deadly.
They also mirror the parallel story that unfolds after the “reunion” of Ciro and Bruno, whom Ciro first encounters in Latvia with a virtually open-mouthed stare. It’s hair-raising, in a quiet, back-of-the-neck kind of way. Mr. D’Amore, who also directs, takes the viewer to and fro, seamlessly, from present-day Eastern Europe to Ciro’s childhood in an Elena Ferrante version of Naples.
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