Synopsis
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
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Cast
- Toni ServilloGiulio Andreotti
- Anna BonaiutoLivia Danese
- Giulio BosettiEugenio Scalfari
- Flavio BucciFranco Evangelisti
- Carlo BuccirossoPaolo Cirino Pomicino
- Giorgio ColangeliSalvo Lima
- Alberto CraccoDon Mario Canciani
- Piera Degli EspostiSignora Enea
- Lorenzo GioielliMino Pecorelli
- Paolo GraziosiAldo Moro
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
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. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Simultaneously exhilarating and confounding, dazzling and confusing, this is filmmaking of such verve and style that you likely won't care that you can't follow it completely. - 88
New York Post
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. - 80
Village Voice
Il Divo plays like an elegantly ritualized black comedy. - 80
The New York Times
As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. - 80
The New Yorker
Consume with great caution, and with joy.
