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Il divo

2008

Paolo Sorrentino

Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Paolo Graziosi ...

6.6

5,248

Drama In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there’s one man who isn’t sleeping. That man is called Giulio Andreotti. He isn’t sleeping because he has to work, write books, be a socialite, and, last but not least, prey. Calm, ambiguous, inscrutable, Andreotti is synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. At the beginning of the nineties, without arrogance or humility, immobile, ambiguous and reassuring, he advances relentlessly ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a deeply strange and utterly hypnotic film (...) Toni Servillo's Andreotti is a macabre masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Almost every shot in the film is a grand composition, with heavy chiaroscuro and emotionally stirring music (...) As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"The focal point is Toni Servillo’s delicious take on Andreotti. Grotesque and subtly powerful at the same time (...) Moments of laugh-out-loud humour abound"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[Sorrentino's] ornate setpieces are frequently dazzling, but as they pile up over two hours, they wind up distracting as often as they illuminate."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[These] films present such mesmerizing figures that I simply regard them, astonished. I wonder if just before a snake strikes you, you think: What an amazing snake! (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"An intensely political film so wildly inventive and witty that it will become a touchstone for years to come"	POS

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