With Venice Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand Of God, Paolo Sorrentino wanted to make a change. “For 20 years, I did a precise kind of movie and I was a little bit tired about that… When I turned 50, I thought it was the right moment to change everything, to change the producer, the crew, the tone, the style.
Even the cinema can run the risk to be a routine,” he told Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event today.The Great Beauty Oscar laureate ultimately turned back to his own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager for The Hand Of God, which is his most personal work to date.
Sorrentino said, “I had this story I was scared to do because it’s very personal, but because it’s a painful story — even if there is a part of
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