Il Divo plays like an elegantly ritualized black comedy.
Il Divo
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Italy, France · 2008
1h 53m
Director Paolo Sorrentino
Starring Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Genre Drama
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Prime Minister Guilio Andreotti earns seven terms as Prime Minister in postwar Italy. Many of his enemies, including Italy's former Prime Minister, have mysteriously disappeared. In 1992, Andreotti is put on trial as the country grapples with Mafia involvement in its government.
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The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
Consume with great caution, and with joy.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Simultaneously exhilarating and confounding, dazzling and confusing, this is filmmaking of such verve and style that you likely won't care that you can't follow it completely.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
Fortunately, there's always the fascination of watching actor Toni Servillo, who does a brilliant job of playing Andreotti (known as Beelzebub) as a kind of devil with a clown's exterior.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo.
Through Sorrentino's lens, Andreotti's chief lieutenants are made to look like Reservoir Dogs, with Andreotti as a calm, tight-lipped, upper-crust analog to Lawrence Tierney.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
The highly stylized, often outrageously funny biopic is anchored by a devastating performance by Toni Servillo as Andreotti, brilliantly capturing the gnomic politician's trademark slouch and inexpressive face.
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