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Topic: Re: La Grazia
Posted by: Joe Conneely
Date/Time: 25/04/26 12:53:00

A film by the always interesting Italian director Paolo Sorrentino with his favourite lead actor Tony Servillo in the lead role, as the fictional President of Italy who is in the final six months of his official appointment.

As the opening titles explain, presidential powers allow them to make the final decisions on several matters including whether to approve new laws. In the film, a bill to legalise euthanasia is on his desk for approval and petitions to grant pardons to two convicted persons (a husband who killed his wife with long term Alzheimer’s and a long-suffering wife who murdered her abusive husband).

Will he approve the three items which his lawyer daughter who assists him plus family and political colleagues are pushing hard for, is the film’s key theme. The President being a devout catholic still grieving for his dead wife and who meets regularly with the current black pope with dreadlocked hair (!), has misgivings on all three matters.

Compared with prior Sorrentino films, this is a much slower moving film and all the better for it, though the usual colourful cinematic flourishes (an amazing scene of an Italian astronaut shedding a tear in his space capsule, being one of them) and a soundscape that cannot be ignored, as the director’s hallmarks are still there.

I personally found it fascinating given how the story unfolds and examines how decisions get made slowly in a bureaucracy, but must admit I enjoy most of the films that Sorrentino makes.

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