Naked impact ... a scene from Gomorra Ever since scooping two top prizes at Cannes last year, Italy has been breaking out the Asti to celebrate what looks like a cinematic rebirth. Some are even hailing the wins as the beginning of a neo-neorealist movement, a new wave of Italian film-making following in the footsteps of auteurs like Rossellini, De Sica and Fellini. "Italy's redemption," gushed a frontpage headling in daily newspaper La Repubblica the day after Gomorra (Gomorrah), a searing take on Naples' mafia, and Il Divo (The Star), a satire of former PM Giulio Andreotti, secured the Grand Prize and the Jury Prize respectively. "Suddenly, from a group of filmmakers who risked fading into simplistic, insignificant storylines and a made-for-TV mentality, springs a new generation of auteurs inspired by politically-engaged...
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