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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to survive. These notes turned in...

Directed By: Francesco Patierno

Written By: Norman Lewis, Francesco Patierno

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Naples '44

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Summary In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to survive. These notes turned in...

Directed By: Francesco Patierno

Written By: Norman Lewis, Francesco Patierno

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60
Dec 7, 2017
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 7, 2017
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.
By Luke Y. Thompson FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 7, 2017
At most, Naples ’44 makes a solid case for turning to Lewis’ prose and getting the full effect of his year there that way.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 29, 2017
It seems less a full-fledged movie than a trailer for a book.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 26, 2017
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.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Dazzle Communication, Rai Cinema, In Between Art Film, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT), Banca Popolare di Milano
Release Date Nov 29, 2017
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspx?t=film&l=en&did=97048
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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Nomination

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