"The horizon is approaching, says the pope to the hero in Sorrentino's new movie, La Grazia, an elegant, elegiac drama about a statesman's last six months in office. Servillo plays Mariano De Santis, the outgoing president of the Italian republic, confronted with a series of moral and ethical choices."
"The Italian film-maker and his muse are both men of old Europe: rigid and courtly and serenely unreconstructed; dignified at the core and a little rackety around the edges. They've made seven pictures together and dearly hope they'll make an eighth. But who can predict? Even the best-laid plans can come a cropper."
"It's not a political movie, Sorrentino insists. Yes, it's about a man who works in politics, but he could have worked in finance, or the automotive industry."
Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo, who have made seven films together, discuss their new film La Grazia at the Venice Film Festival. The movie follows Mariano De Santis, an outgoing Italian president navigating his last six months in office while facing moral and ethical dilemmas. De Santis represents a dedicated public servant of the old European order, struggling to reconcile his Catholic faith with his legal training. The film explores themes of mortality, institutional decline, and the passage of power. Sorrentino emphasizes the film transcends politics, focusing instead on universal human concerns about legacy and the finite nature of time as established systems give way to uncertainty.
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