È stata la mano di Dio
Directed by:
Paolo SorrentinoScreenplay:
Paolo SorrentinoCinematography:
Daria D'AntonioComposer:
Lele MarchitelliCast:
Toni Servillo, Filippo Scotti, Teresa Saponangelo, Lino Musella, Alfonso Perugini, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betty Pedrazzi (more)VOD (1)
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The story of a young man’s heartbreak and liberation in Naples, Italy. It’s the 1980s and 17-year old Fabietto Schisa might be an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place, but he finds joy in an amazing family who love life, relish mischief and take deep pleasure in meddling in one another’s complicated relationships. Then comes a pair of events that alter everything. One is the triumphant arrival in Naples of a god-like athletic legend: high-flying soccer idol Maradona, who has Fabietto, and the whole scrappy city, feeling a pride that once seemed impossible. The other is an inconceivable accident that will drop the bottom out of Fabietto’s world—setting his future in motion. Seemingly saved by Maradona, touched by chance or the hand of God, Fabietto wrestles with the nature of fate, the confusion of loss, and the intoxicating freedom of being alive. In his most movingly personal film, Sorrentino takes audiences on a sensory journey bursting with the contrasts of tragedy and comedy, love and desire, absurdity and beauty, as Fabietto finds the only way out of total catastrophe through his own imagination. (Venice International Film Festival)
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The best Sorrentino in years, probably since The Consequences of Love. Finally shaking off the chubby Roman pathos of The Great Beauty and the masturbatory excesses of Youth, he serves up his unmistakable Napoleonic diet poetic style. The fewer great words that are spoken, the greater things that God's hand touches. The more modest the images here, the more moving they are. The first half is a crackling family comedy with many memorable moments, whilst the second half is a much heavier drama about the impossibility of accepting the loss of loved ones and film as a refuge where we find shreds of lost happiness. Life is sometimes like a cruise to a party island, but where everyone has already gone to sleep... The Maradona of European cinema scores a good one.
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