Lise Pedersen Multi-award winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has been speaking openly about his most intimate film to date, “The Hand of God,” at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, where his upcoming Netflix film received its French premiere.Speaking at a masterclass at the century-old Comédie Odéon theater, Sorrentino confided: “I am first and foremost an observer.
It’s what I like doing. But at some point you have to move on from observation to narration. I start telling a story when reality becomes too chaotic.
For me, telling a story is putting things in order. That’s the meaning of cinema: putting order into the disorder of reality.”Questioned on his taste for order and symmetry in his filmmaking, he went on: “I am afraid of chaos.
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