Twenty years ago, Paolo Sorrentino began his relationship with the Venice Film Festival when he brought his feature directorial debut, One Man Up, to the Lido.
This year, The Great Beauty Oscar winner is in town with The Hand Of God, an autobiographical drama that recounts the filmmaker’s own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager.
Sorrentino told the press corps this afternoon that he finally felt able to tell the story, “perhaps because I am the right age to do it.
I turned 50 last year and I thought I was mature enough to face such a personal film. A dear colleague told me I never make anything that is very personal, and I thought it was a challenge to grasp.”Asked if this sort of project marks a shift in direction for
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