2008 · drama · biography
Il Divo
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino1h 53m2008
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Our read: Il Divo (2008) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / biography, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
- signature
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