Ammore e malavita (2017)

	Also Known As: Love and bullets
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Antonio e Marco Manetti
	Actors: Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso, Raiz, Franco Ricciardi
	Country: I
	Genre: Music, Polar, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 24.09.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, Italian/Neapolitan with German subtitle
Synopsis: In order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish") (Buccirosso), Donna Maria (Gerini) sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro (Morelli) and Rosario (Raiz), to find the nurse and kill her. Ciro finds the nurse: surprisingly she is Fatima (Rossi), the only girl he ever loved, which he had abandoned when he began his criminal career. To save her, Ciro hides Fatima by his uncle Mimmo (Buonomo), and starts a bloody fight with all his clan, including his best friend Rosario and the right hand of the big boss Gennaro (Ricciardi).
Review: The plot is quite simple and reminds the video games classical like Moktar (aka Titus the Fox). And this plays in Napoli and not between France and Marocco. The big originality of the movie is to mix some cruel crime scenes with songs. This effect makes these scenes hilarious. Apart from some explanatory scenes with Don Vincenzo or Donna Maria and before Ciro meets Fatima, the story itself is rather a kind of video game where Ciro meets one or several bad guys or a big boss and has a fight scene.  The acting is in accordance with the style of the movie, both authentic and farcical. The soundtrack does not show the unity provided by Les parapluies de Cherbourg by Jacques Demy or La La Land by Damien Chazelle.
Rating: 6 /10