Fresh
The film takes flight on the brilliant title performance by Tony Servillo (Gomorrah), who plays Andreotti like a mummified Alec Guinness, as if encased in layers of plaster of Paris.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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Il Divo
Overview
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Director and cast
- Paolo Sorrentino Director
- Toni Servillo as Giulio Andreotti
- Anna Bonaiuto as Livia Danese
- Giulio Bosetti as Eugenio Scalfari
- Flavio Bucci as Franco Evangelisti
- Carlo Buccirosso as Paolo Cirino Pomicino
- Giorgio Colangeli as Salvo Lima
- Alberto Cracco as Don Mario
- Piera Degli Esposti as Signora Enea
- Lorenzo Gioielli as Mino Pecorelli
- Paolo Graziosi Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
We may not know the man, but we know the dance, as seen in the highly diverting and hugely controversial Il Divo, a biopic as wly as its subject.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
After I saw Il Divo, I suppose I should have felt indignation. I suppose I should also have felt that way after "The Godfather." But such films present such mesmerizing figures that I simply regard them, astonished.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The enigmatic Andreotti is the perfect subject for a biopic in the European tradition.
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic
Fresh
All in all, this phenomenal film illustrates Alexis de Tocqueville's observation that "The people get the government they deserve." In both meanings of the word, Il Divo is sensational.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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