It isn’t often that any film inspires this kind of rave review. Il Divo appears to be headed straight for the Foreign Language film race, if it turns out that Italy submits it. Jay Weissberg writes:
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. Not merely chronicling the career of seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti but also zooming in on the enigmatic politico’s character, pic features an astonishing degree of craftsmanship and a towering performance by Toni Servillo. Sole drawback is that nonlocals will feel inundated by names, most of which are familiar only to Italo auds. This is a brave, bold film whose chances of international success are relatively small, but whose ramifications are huge.
I wanted to make a Simon Cowell joke but decided not to. Sounds like a good film.
You know, I hope IL DIVO, but am I the only one who accidently thought that in first glance, that the movie’s title was IL DILDO?
If I’m the only one, then I need to quit surfing the internet.
Manohla Dargis apparently thinks differently:
The widely shared opinion among critics seems to be that this wasn’t such a great year. But such snap judgments can be deceptive. A film festival is by nature ephemeral, but good movies have a way of sticking around. And after enduring a few bad ones in the past few days — why the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino keeps being invited back to Cannes is nearly as incomprehensible as “Il Divo,” his latest offering — I was happy to discover Laurent Cantet’s competition entry, “Entre les Murs.”