The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
It seems less a full-fledged movie than a trailer for a book.
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Italy · 2016
1h 25m
Director Francesco Patierno
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Adriano Giannini, Pasquale Ascione, Rita De Lorenzo
Genre Documentary, Drama, War
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The diary of Norman Lewis, a British intelligence officer in Naples at the end of WWII, is brought to life in a feature documentary. Combining never-before-seen archival footage and fascinating excerpts from famous films set in the city of Naples, the film recreates the authentic setting that Lewis found when he arrived there.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
It seems less a full-fledged movie than a trailer for a book.
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.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
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.
Village Voice by Luke Y. Thompson
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.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
At most, Naples ’44 makes a solid case for turning to Lewis’ prose and getting the full effect of his year there that way.
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