I want to write a little bit about each film from my Italian recommended cinema list, so let’s start.
Il Divo, by Paolo Sorrentino, is a film who raised a lot of rumor, in Italy. Because it’s the portrait of one the most controversial politician in the history of Italy as a Republic: Giulio Andreotti. Doing a homage to one of the Italian Maestri del cinema, Elio Petri (his TODO MODO in particular) Sorrentino chooses not to go for a narrative biopic, but reinvents history through a brilliant grotesque satiric portrait of one man, interpreted by amazing Toni Servillo. IL DIVO is a unique piece of cinema, funny, anti-narrative without being boring, surprising.