BLACK SOUL - Revelant Public Event

Black Soul is a true story of the real life Italian mafia Carbone Family original from Africo, Italy under the Ndrsanghets circle. The film was inspired from true events in the novel written by Italian poet and philospher Gioacchino Criaco. The film first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Its plot is focused on the Carbone Family as they engaged in family business of the drug trade. Director Franceso Munzi spins a violent tale about the three Carbone brothers Rocco, Luigi and Luciano as they are faced with stopping a blood feud created Luciano youngest son Leo.  The eldest brother Luciano is played by renowned Italian actor Fabrizio Ferracane as he portrays the eccentric hothead gangster that chosen to herd goat instead going into the family business.  He son shows little respect for his Father's choice of life and is more influenced by his flamboyant uncles. Cast as Rocco actor Peppino  Mazzotta plays the cool sober accountant of the family who's as a family man is married Northern Italian wife Kay Corleone played but the award winning actress Barbora Bobulova.  Rooco always disapproves of Luigi's spontaneous lust for blood.  Luigi is played by Marco Leonardi  from the romantic cult followed film "Like Water for Chocolate".  The teenage nephew Leo played by newcomer Guiseppe Fumo turns the families luck upside down when she shoots up a local bar owned by a rival family he ignites a gang war that remain silent for many years.

Reserved viewing of "Black Souls" was scheduled on April 22  at School of Cinematic Arts in Room 108. As I arrived I was surprised at the very few people that arrived to see a Munzi film who's productions "Saimir" and Rest of Yor Life showed a strong following in European cinema. On the released date "Black Soul" opened in the USA with a gross profit of $6,286 on April 24 in the USA and has net profits of $45,201.  It has a potential of contributing to European and US gangster genre chronicles such the Godfather weaning audiences back into the excitement for a dark psychological thriller. The film lacks some of the mis-en-scene cinematography of other films, I think the impressive views of the wild Aspromonte mountains could have been accented more.  But the authentic natural acting prowess by the three brothers does intensify the crime-riddled drama.

"Are the crooks coming for dinner?" was the best scene stealer of the movie where the charismatic wife of Rocco as she gauges her husbands thoughts before the inevitable bloody showdown.  The motif of violence begets violence hovers over the inherited moral choice by each generation as the brothers are sworn to protect their ancestral reputation. Foregrounding the spirit of a pure conscious the film ends with an unwelcome twist but piercing monotones of dignity help create the belief in the anti gangster hero.  Good promises to this film.