00:00Venice 82, the 82nd edition of the Venice Biennale International Film Festival, has officially begun.
00:08We are in Lido and we have already seen the opening film, La Grazia by Paolo Sorrentino.
00:15After Pardinope, the Oscar-winning director returns to collaborate with Tony Servillo who not only gave him the Oscar for La Grande Belleza,
00:23but also some of the best films of his career and La Grazia is a candidate to be among the director's best films.
00:30The story is that of Mariano De Santis, President of the Republic, six months before the end of his seven-year term.
00:43And these six months will be, however, characterized by doubts, uncertainties and the realization that, throughout his life, De Santis,
00:50throughout his political and legal life, De Santis has been a cautious person, a person who has never taken a clear position,
00:57probably also because of his profession, in fact, a jurist who bases his work on the truth and precisely because the truth, the facts are difficult to establish.
01:11Precisely for this reason he has a very cautious approach to life.
01:14However, this caution will be shaken by these last six months of his mandate.
01:22The elderly jurist will have to deal with the question that has tormented him for over 40 years,
01:27and which concerns his late and beloved wife Aurora,
01:30and above all he will have to decide whether or not to sign a particular law,
01:33and whether to grant clemency to two lifers.
01:35Along with Servillo, who of course always offers a master class in acting on the big screen,
01:46there is Anna Ferzetti who plays the daughter of President De Santis and who surprises with a
01:50very balanced and measured performance, and probably her best of her career.
01:54The film puts its protagonist in search of lost lightness, which is very complicated for a person,
02:05a lawyer, an upright man who is nicknamed Reinforced Concrete.
02:12So you can imagine the kind of character Servillo plays.
02:18In the first part, the film is characterized by being very scripted,
02:21there is a lot of dialogue and unfortunately it often sounds stilted,
02:25but in the second part it loosens up.
02:28Sorrentino manages to be very sincere in this film
02:31and the perception is the great emotion that involves and overwhelms,
02:35especially in the second part.
02:42This great emotion, this great emotion that comes out in the second part of the film,
02:46um, gives a very rounded, very complete meaning to the story and there are also hilarious,
02:51very funny moments and all the supporting actors, although they may appear little on the screen,
02:56still manage to give depth to their characters.
03:04The film represents a moment of greater focus in Sorrentino's career as a director
03:08after the experience of Partanope which had been a little less balanced.
03:12It seems that the environment of the Palaces of Power is particularly congenial to Sorrentino for plumbing the human soul.
03:25And in fact, Grace, as we have already mentioned,
03:28certainly represents one of his best moments as a director.
03:32Ah!
03:32And that's exactly how I'd like to turn this to follow.
03:38As you guys can, I guess,
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03:46There have been a great opportunity here for things about Masa
03:47and you can go
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