"It Was the Hand of God" is nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Film.
Paolo Sorrentino's film entered the five nominations announced today.
Another Italian in the competition, Enrico Casarosa, is nominated for an Oscar with the Disney animated film "Luca". The Oscars ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, March 27 in Los Angeles.
"I am very happy with this nomination. For me it is already a great victory. It is a reason for emotion, because it is a prestigious recognition of the themes of the film, which are the things I believe in: irony, freedom, tolerance, pain, carefree, will, the future, Naples and my mother ", the director's hot comment.
“To get here, it took a huge team effort. So, I have to thank Netflix, Fremantle, The Apartment, the amazing actors and an unforgettable crew,” he adds.
"And then my children and my wife, who love me in the most beautiful way: without ever taking me seriously", he concludes.
THE FILM - “It was the hand of God” is the painful story of Sorrentino's childhood, his parents, his relatives, his city. A self-analysis film that is a declared homage to Federico Fellini, almost a Sorrentine Amarcord, a homage to his Naples and, needless to say, to Maradona who would have saved him from death.
In 1987, in fact, to attend a Napoli football match and see the "Pibe de Oro" in action, the 17-year-old super fan director did not follow, for once, his parents who, like every weekend, go to the mountains. In the Roccaraso house the couple is killed by a leak of carbon monoxide, leaving them orphaned. And here is the strongest scene of the whole film: the race of Fabietto Schisa (aka Sorrentino, played by Filippo Scotti) together with his brother (Marlon Joubert ) to the hospital to discover, after a long embarrassment by the doctors, that both parents (Toni Servillo and Teresa Saponangelo) are dead.
(Unioneonline / vl)