130 mins |
Rated
R16 (violence, domestic violence, sexual material & offensive language)
The Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrento pens a love letter to his native Naples, looking back poignantly at the formative experiences of his youth in the 1980s. “Don’t thank God, I’m the one that bought you the season ticket,” Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) tells his son Fabietto (Fillippo Scotti) in “The Hand of God,” after giving his son a birthday gift he won’t forget. It isn’t the first time, nor the last, that someone questions divine intervention in Paulo Sorrentino’s moving semi-autobiographical drama...
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The Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrento pens a love letter to his native Naples, looking back poignantly at the formative experiences of his youth in the 1980s. “Don’t thank God, I’m the one that bought you the season ticket,” Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) tells his son Fabietto (Fillippo Scotti) in “The Hand of God,” after giving his son a birthday gift he won’t forget. It isn’t the first time, nor the last, that someone questions divine intervention in Paulo Sorrentino’s moving semi-autobiographical drama...