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Naples '44

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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

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.

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Slant Magazine by Derek Smith

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.

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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.

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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.

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