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LA RECENSIONE
I downloaded the movie. And I even watched it in fairly good conditions (alone at home, few street noises, no ambulances, without a cellphone).
Mediocre movie, much less than what the trailers and the television promotion built around it promised.
The exhausting slowness is a hallmark of this Neapolitan director, who has created a sort of Amarcord of his youth. In fact, I fell asleep after half an hour. I woke up here and there to Toni Servillo's whistling to call his wife.
I watched it a second time, but honestly, it is NOT a movie I would watch twice. Surely, a Neapolitan director making a movie with the excuse of Maradona couldn’t skip Pino Daniele in the soundtrack, right? And indeed... it's the Festival of the Obvious, essentially. All it needed was quotes from Totó and pizza to make it Bingo??
How sad are these directors, who are running out of inspiration and burden us with these little movies ?????? A Sorrentì, jattinne ja...
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The review criticizes Paolo Sorrentino's 'È stata la mano di Dio' for its slow pacing and reliance on obvious nostalgic elements. The reviewer found the movie disappointing and not worth rewatching despite its promotion. It also highlights the predictable inclusion of iconic Neapolitan references like Maradona and Pino Daniele. Overall, the film is seen as lacking originality and inspiration.
Paolo Sorrentino
Italian film director and screenwriter born in Naples in 1970, known for visually bold, often formally ambitious films and recurring collaborations with actor Toni Servillo.23 Reviews
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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 Redwolf
The film is truly mediocre and the praises and tributes I read here and there are completely unjustified.
A banal narrative that unfolds laboriously between stereotypes and images from a tourist board.
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.
