Il Divo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 110 minuten
Country:
Italy / France
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto and Piera Degli Esposti
IMDb score:
7,2 (19.822)
Releasedate: 28 May 2008
Il Divo plot
Italy, the 1990s. The country is shaken by a series of terrorist acts perpetrated by the mafia and political opponents. Ministers are kidnapped, important industrialists disappear and are found dead. In the midst of all this terror stands one man who seems untouchable: the politician Andreotti (Toni Servillo), one of the most important and powerful Italian politicians since the Second World War. Whether we see him at official parties, in concert with his ministers, in conversation with journalists or privately with his wife, the man and his actions are unfathomable. Until everything changes. The previously untouchable Andreotti himself is now being held to account by the government - trials are being launched against him for alleged links to the mafia. Will Andreotti manage to keep his mask and save his skin?
Actors and actresses
Giulio Andreotti
Livia Danese
Eugenio Scalfari
Franco Evangelisti
Paolo Cirino Pomicino
Salvo Lima
Don Mario Canciani
Signora Enea
Mino Pecorelli
Aldo Moro
Reviews & comments
Naomi Watts
-
- 54554 messages
- 3155 votes
Happy Sorrentino again. He does not yet want to perfectly fuse his masterly sense of visual language and thematics, but his cinema does retain a unique feel. At This Must Be The Place he made a painful mistake and matched things that evoke conflicts, but luckily he did better with Il Divo.
His dynamic cinematography is once again magical and luckily he now manages to create a narrative and atmosphere that match his dreamy way of capturing images. Fortunately, he doesn't go for a realistic capture of Il Divo but prefers a surrealistic approach, which works really well. Nice mix of pop and classical too. Gabriel Fauré's "Pavane" always works.
Sorrentino and Servillo as a duo always fires up fireworks and here too their chemistry really ignites, and Servillo also seems to bring out the best in Sorrentino. The surreal approach and the visual language of Sorrentino ensure a beautiful interplay. This could still grow with revision. This Must Be The Place was hopefully just an incident. I'll get that answer tomorrow morning with La Grande Bellezza.
Translated from Dutch · View original
eRCee
-
- 13413 messages
- 1956 votes
Oh dear. So Sorrentino does have two sides for me. To an even greater extent than in Le conseguenze and This must be the place I find the main character of Il divo so uninteresting that the film is a becomes difficult. These kind of calculating figures and their strategic killings, it is boring. The poppy design of Sorrentiono then only irritates, and thus also works to the disadvantage of the film. And that I can't place every murdered face is not so bad, but for example the scene with the visiting woman who enters the office, you have no idea what that is about and so it remains an isolated moment that does nothing for the viewer . Most important advice to the director: populate your films less with empty and unchanging cardboard and more with melancholic, searching characters.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Fisico (moderator films)
-
- 10017 messages
- 5398 votes
I thought it was a difficult film to rate. On the one hand a fairly flashy film with the technical way in which the film was presented, but on the other hand also stiff with the many characters who pass in review in the past and present, in which you as a non-Italian do not always find as much recognisability. . The characters are introduced with some subtitles, but it was just too much information for me.
While Sorrentino does his best to make the information catchy, he doesn't always succeed. It jumps from one thing to another too much. I lacked coherence and a clear plot. It felt too patchy.
Interesting was the character Andreotti, who was excellently portrayed by Toni Servillo. A mysterious man who commanded prestige through his stoic performances. A film that requires some prior knowledge, although the visual technical aspect makes up for it at some moments.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Corporate & Media
Realtimes Network
Innovatieweg 20C
7007 CD, Doetinchem, Netherlands
+31(315)-764002
Realtimes Network
- Sign up |
- Contact Us |
- About Us |
- Advertise |
- Privacy |
- Disclaimer |
- RSS Feed
© 2025 MovieMeter B.V.