Il Divo
I had a dream of creating a sort of rock opera about politics.
– PAOLO SORRENTINO
Political cinema meets Fellini meets Tarantino.
– GUIDO BONSAVER, SIGHT & SOUND
[Andreotti] is played, mesmerically, by Toni Servillo as an undead bureaucrat, a drab Dracula in a shabby suit and boring spectacles. The movie covers his life from the early 1980s, just after the murder of Aldo Moro, to the 90s, when he is arraigned and then unconvincingly acquitted of mafia involvement. The movie fi nishes just before Andreotti cedes pre-eminence to Silvio Berlusconi, rather like Tiberius giving way to Caligula. -- This is a deeply strange and utterly hypnotic film, almost traumatised with its own information overload and by the frenetic accumulation of data pointing to one conclusion: that Italy’s politicians have tainted the country with corruption and secret shame. Servillo’s Andreotti is a macabre masterpiece.
– PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN
Duration: 110 min
Dialogue: English, Italian
Subtitles: English
