The Hand of God, 2021. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Luisa Ranieri, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Massimiliano Gallo, Renato Carpentieri, Marlon Joubert and Betti Pedrazzi. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring filmmaker in Naples must navigate sex, coming of age and tragedy against the backdrop of Diego Maradona’s much-heralded arrival in the city. Football has immense […]
Movie Review – The Hand of God (2021)
The Hand of God, 2021. Written and Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betti Pedrazzi, Enzo De Caro, Sofya Gershevich, Lino Musella, Biagio Manna, Ciro Capano, Alessandro Bressanello, Birte Berg, Dora Romano, Monica Nappo, Cristiana Dell’Anna, and Alfonso Perugini. SYNOPSIS: In 1980s […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Hand of God
The Hand of God, 2021. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betty Pedrazzi, Biagio Manna and Ciro Capano. SYNOPSIS: This story of love, loss and family feuds is set in Naples with Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) at the epicentre. His father (Toni Servillo) […]
Netflix releases trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God
Netflix has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s (Youth, The Young Pope) upcoming drama The Hand of God which follows teenager Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) through his experiences of heartbreak and liberation in 1980’s Naples; take look here… From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), comes the story of […]
Jennifer Lawrence teaming with Paolo Sorrentino for Sue Mengers biopic
They’re already attached to the true crime drama Mob Girl, and it seems that actress Jennifer Lawrence and filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino are looking to add a second project to their slate with a biopic of legendary Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. The as-yet-untitled project has been written by Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo and John […]
Trailer for Netflix’s Homemade, a lockdown anthology featuring films from Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paolo Sorrentino, Ana Lily Amirpour and more
Netflix has released a trailer for Homemade, a collection of short films by created by filmmakers Ladj Ly, Paolo Sorrentino, Rachel Morrison, Pablo Larraín, Rungano Nyoni, Natalia Beristáin, Sebastian Schipper, Naomi Kawase, David Mackenzie, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nadine Labaki & Khaled Mouzanar, Antonio Campos, Johnny Ma, Kristen Stewart, Gurinder Chadha, Sebastián Lelio, and Ana Lily Amirpour, […]
HBO releases new trailer for The New Pope starring Jude Law and John Malkovich
With just a month a go until the premiere of The New Pope, HBO has released a new trailer for the hotly-anticipated follow-up to Paolo Sorrentino’s acclaimed 2016 drama The Young Pope, which sees Jude Law reprising his role as Pope Pius XIII and stars John Malkovich as his successor Pope John Paul III; watch […]
First trailer for The New Pope starring Jude Law and John Malkovich
Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this weekend, HBO and Sky Atlantic have debuted the first trailer for The New Pope, the follow-up to Paolo Sorrentino’s acclaimed drama series The Young Pope, which sees Jude Law reprising his role as Pope Pius XIII; watch it here… The New Pope sees Jude […]
Jennifer Lawrence to play a Mob Girl in new mafia film
The Wrap is reporting that Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to produce and star in Mob Girl, a new mafia tale from director Paolo Sorrentino (The Young Pope) . Based upon a true-crime book Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life in the Underworld by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Teresa Carpenter, the film will see […]
Movie Review – Loro (2018)
Loro, 2018. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Alice Pagani and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. SYNOPSIS: The epic and unauthorised tale of Silvio Berlusconi – Italy’s most infamous politician and party boy. A lengthy legal disclaimer at the start of Paolo Sorrentino’s epic Silvio Berlusconi biopic – released in […]