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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 50 m
Il Divo

Summary In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is sleeping, one man is awake. That man is Giulio Andreotti. He's awake because he has to work, write books, move in fashionable circles and, last but not least, pray. Calm, crafty and inscrutable, Andreotti is synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. At the beginning of the Nineties, this impassiv...

Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino

Written By: Paolo Sorrentino

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 50 m

Il Divo

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 26 User Ratings
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Summary In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is sleeping, one man is awake. That man is Giulio Andreotti. He's awake because he has to work, write books, move in fashionable circles and, last but not least, pray. Calm, crafty and inscrutable, Andreotti is synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. At the beginning of the Nineties, this impassiv...

Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino

Written By: Paolo Sorrentino

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An intensely political film so wildly inventive and witty that it will become a touchstone for years to come, Il Divo is a masterpiece for maverick helmer-scribe Paolo Sorrentino.
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The frequently outrageous Il Divo follows the career of one of the best-known and most tenacious figures in Italian political history in a lively, sensory-overload, cartoonlike fashion reminiscent of "Amelie" and "Moulin Rouge." The fact that it's often over-the-top goes with saying, and is part of the fun.
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The film proceeds like a black comedy version of "The Godfather," crossed with Oliver Stone’s "Nixon."
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
Consume with great caution, and with joy.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
75
Instead of a modern classic, able to travel the globe with ease, Il Divo is merely a wonderfully cast, tonally assured achievement, with a uniquely strange tour de force at its core.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
75
Il Divo is showboat moviemaking, but the opulence is of a piece with the film's damning assessment of the durable Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
67
Through Sorrentino's lens, Andreotti's chief lieutenants are made to look like Reservoir Dogs, with Andreotti as a calm, tight-lipped, upper-crust analog to Lawrence Tierney.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 26 User Ratings
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19% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Production Company Indigo Film, Lucky Red, Parco Film, Babe Film, StudioCanal, Arte France Cinéma, Sky Cinema, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Eurimages, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte, Regione Campania, Film Commission Regione Campania, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Apr 24, 2009
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The spectacular life of Giulio Andreotti.
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
David di Donatello Awards
• 7 Wins & 16 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations

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