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A Ciambra review - a powerful drama for our times

A Ciambra review - a powerful drama for our times

The story of a Roma boy and his relatives in a Calabrian slum offers an insightful view of the deep Italian south.

James Norton
Jun 23, 2018
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In cinemas from this week a powerful new film that plumbs the lower depths of the deep south. Italian-American Jonas Carpignano’s impressive and immersive drama A Ciambra is a sequel to his Mediterranea, whose Burkinabe protagonist Ayiva, played by Koudous Seihon is still trying to scrape an honest living in joyless Gioia Tauro in Calabria.

But this film…

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