Production Secretary
Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)
Production Secretary
This movie is an Emmanuelle film in name only. Carmen Villani does get naked often, and there is this guy who looks like he was in the :Monkeys: The film begins with Billy ( Roberto Cenci ) who rushes to the airport of Tunis , for the arrival of her friend Andrea ( Carmen Villani ), returning from Paris with her husband. But Billy's happiness is shattered when she learns quickly that it should host to his house, at the request of Andrea, Bobby ( Gianfranco D'Angelo ), in love with Andrea, and Dr. Censi ( Nadia Cassini ), a friend of Bobby, who tries in vain to cure him of his uncontrollable desire of women, but to no avail, even allowing himself to him, after having hypnotized. After realizing that Bobby was not the right man for her, Andrea finally falls in love Billy.
Joe Dallesandro plays a hungry young buck who aspires to be a career criminal. He starts out working at a warehouse for a gangster where he helps to relocate illegal contraband, and because of his ruthlessness and dependability he begins to ascend the ladder of organized crime. Of course, the more powerful he becomes, the more "Climbers" come out of the shadows to take his place.
