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Il Divo
A film by Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Toni Servillo
"Il Divo is a masterpiece."
Jay Weissberg, VARIETY
"Simultaneously exhilarating and confounding."
Kenneth Turan, LA TIMES
"Frequently outrageous!"
Peter Brunette, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Il Divo plays like an elegantly ritualized black comedy."
Ella Taylor, THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Sorrentino is a spectacularly inventive talent and has harnessed an astounding performance from Servillo."
Shawn Levy, PORTLAND OREGONIAN
"Brilliant performance by Toni Servillo."
Vanessa Farquharson, NATIONAL POST
"You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo."
Lisa Schwartzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"A fine piece of filmmaking."
Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"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."
V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"In both meanings of the word, Il Divo is sensational."
Carrie Rickey, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"The visuals are frankly superb, with lighting and camera work to rival anything in the last couple of years."
Michael Edwards, SCREEN JABBER
"Quirky and innovative
a hugely rewarding film."
Michael Edwards, SCREEN JABBER
"5 STARS OUT OF 5 - Delicious and deadly!"
Dave Calhoun, TIME OUT LONDON
"Compelling!"
Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"The filmmaking is sensational...almost every shot in the film is a grand composition, with heavy chiaroscuro and emotionally stirring music."
Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"3.5 STARS OUT OF 4"
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN TIMES
"Superbly cinematic."
David Parkinson, EMPIRE MAGAZINE
"Consume with great caution, and with joy."
Anthony Lane, THE NEW YORKER
"As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola"
Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
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Jury Prize • Cannes Film Festival
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Best Actor • European Film Awards
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Nominated for Best Makeup • Academy Awards 2010
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Winner of the Jury Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, "Il Divo" is the controversial story of Guilio Andreotti (Toni Servillo). Calm, crafty, and inscrutable, Andreotti served seven terms as Italy's prime minister until the early 1990's, when the world's most powerful Mafia declared war on him. Well-crafted and suspenseful, "Il Divo" is a story of politicking, corruption, scandal, and terrorism -- and the man who sat through it all unscathed .
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Drama - 2008 - Italy/France - Italian, English - 110 min.
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