This review of “The Hand of God” was first published on Sept. 2, following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2021. The coming-of-age genre is ever-popular in both literature and cinema, and an ...

Venice: Famed maximalist Paolo Sorrentino scales back with an autobiographical coming-of-age story that allows him to reach new heights. Now, Sorrentino revisits the summer when he learned that lesson ...

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When Sorrentino was 17, his parents died in a freak accident. It took him more than 30 years to make a film about it. Last year, Paolo Sorrentino turned 50, and realized he was ready to confront the ...

Paolo Sorrentino's new autobiographical film The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio) is on Netflix since December 15. According to Netflix's Global Top 10 chart, it was the second most watched ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The national cinema of Italy, perhaps more than most countries, lives in the shadow of one director: Federico Fellini. The man tipped as his likeliest successor, Paolo ...

Rated R,. In Italian with subtitles. At the Landmark Kendall Square, Coolidge Corner Theatre and on Netflix. Grade: B+ A deft reminder of the glory of a Fellini-esque coming-of-age film, Paolo ...

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. When Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reached ...

Now streaming on Netflix, The Hand of God is director Paolo Sorrentino’s nostalgic autobiographical drama about a teenage not-a-boy/not-a-man coming of age in mid-1980s Naples, and whose life was ...

The Italian filmmaker depicts his defining teenage moment in Naples in 1984, but with a tone that's less Fellini than flip. As you watch “The Hand of God,” it’s easy to vibrate sympathetically with ...