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Il Divo
Drama - 2008
7.3
92%
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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.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
113 min
Release date:
28 May 2008
Country:
FR, IT
Languages:
English, Italian
Budget:
$7,275,000
Revenue:
$11,260,366
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 32 wins & 40 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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,
5 Jun 2009
fresh:
The enigmatic Andreotti is the perfect subject for a biopic in the European tradition.
– Kerry Lengel,
Arizona Republic,
30 Jun 2009
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,
9 Jul 2009
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,
10 Jul 2009
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,
23 Aug 2009
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