MUBI has released a trailer for La Grazia, the Italian political drama from writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Young Pope, The Great Beauty). Toni Servillo stars in the Venice Film Festival award-winning role as Italian president Mariano De Santis, and follows his final months in office as he grapples with the moral crisis of euthanasia legislation, […]
Movie Review – The Hand of God (2021)
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) […]
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 […]
Toni Servillo to play Geppetto in Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio
Deadline is reporting that Italian actor Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) is set to reunite with his Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone on a new live-action version of Pinocchio. Servillo is set to play Geppetto in the film, which is said to be taking an “artisanal approach, blending prosthetics, special makeup and CGI.” “Pinocchio is a […]
The Great Beauty’s Toni Servillo to play Silvio Berlusconi for Paolo Sorrentino
The Great Beauty star Toni Servillo is set to reunite with director Paolo Sorrentino on the filmmaker’s new project Loro, where he will take on the role of Italian media mogul and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. According to Variety, the Italian-language film will explore Berlusconi and his inner circle, and Sorrentino is putting the finishing […]
Movie Review – The Confessions (2016)
The Confessions, 2016 Directed by Roberto Andò. Starring Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Pierfrancesco Favino, Connie Nielsen, Lambert Wilson, Marie-Josée Croze, and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: At G8 meeting in Germany, a monk invited by director of the International Monetary Fund ends up thrust into the middle of a murder investigation while navigating a web of international […]
