Not Just Married to the Mob: Italy’s Crime Stories Open Up to Women via variety
The mob in Italy, besides being an endemic plague, has always been grist for the film and TV mill, with gritty Naples-set show “But a major change is underway in how Italian producers and talents are tackling organized crime tropes that were once exclusively imbued in patriarchal pathos. Mob stories coming out of Italy are primarily a woman’s thing these days. Or, rather, the perspective is a female one.
The pulpy “Bang Bang” is produced by “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend” producer Lorenzo Mieli, who notes that, like “Gomorrah,” it’s loosely rooted in reality. What’s specific about the series, he says, is that we see the narrative from the point of view of the protagonist, Alice. Rosa’s character, played by newcomer Lina Siciliano, distills the many voices in Italian journalist Lirio Abbate’s book “Fimmine Ribelli,” about women who’ve had the courage to rebel against the ’Ndrangheta and its codes.
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