Abel Ferrara Premiere
ased on the real histories of female convicts in a Neapolitan jail, Abel Ferrara’s Napoli, Napoli, Napoli interweaves prison interviews with dramatisations of their lives to create a compelling, multi-layered picture of the underbelly of a great Italian city.
Ferarra’s family came from Naples to live in the Bronx, the rough neighbourhood next to Manhattan island which he argues closely resembled the Naples of his grandfathers’ youth.
“I might be a stranger to the city [of Naples] but I’m not a stranger to the to the problem of trying to survive in a city reeling from violence and poverty but also from its overflow of art, culture and the intense love of family,” says Ferarra. “The parallels run deep in these scary 21st century city landscapes.”
Ferrara will attend a Q&A session following the screening of Napoli, Napoli, Napoli on 23 April 2010 at the Barbican, along with actress Shanyn Leigh who plays Lucia, one of the women convicts, in the film.
