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I watched "È stata la mano di Dio" and I agree with The Punisher (I also agree with those who criticize the latter for a certain carelessness in their review).
The film is truly mediocre and the praises and tributes I read here and there are completely unjustified. As already in "La grande bellezza," the ideas of others (especially Fellini and Francesco Rosi) are presented again with bright colors and in high definition in an attempt to create a socially contextualized Campanian Amarcord in the 1980s (but without the inventions, grace, and magic of the former and without the clear sociological analysis of the latter). A banal narrative that unfolds laboriously between stereotypes and images from a tourist board (and the notes of "Napule è" by Pino Daniele with the closing credits are not missing either!).
I won’t dwell on the observation that the only "great beauty" of the film is that of Luisa Ranieri because the truth, once revolutionary, quickly becomes obvious and I won't dwell on Toni Servillo's mediocre performance, who in the film seems to have taken Alvaro Vitali's "Pierino" as a reference, chuckling at his own poor jokes because... it's almost Christmas.
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By Confaloni
I don’t like reality anymore, reality is poor.
With È stata la mano di Dio he has surpassed himself and signed his best film. Congratulations Paolo!
By POLO
So much beauty, but what am I saying, so much poetry, so much POETRY IN THIS CITY that when I look at the sea and laugh, it seems like it puts me on a cross!
Dear Paolo, I have something to say: Ammo', but you’re REALLY AMAZING!!!!
By The Punisher
Mediocre movie, much less than what the trailers and the television promotion built around it promised.
It is NOT a movie I would watch twice.
By joe strummer
Sorrentino has no fear of showing his reality in its pure form, without filters or censorship.
This is precisely the uncommon merit of the film: it creates a social and family portrait full of dignity.
