Idle Hands: Sorrentino’s Sprawling Saga a Wayward Bildungsroman
There’s almost as much to admire as there is to dismiss in The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino’s most capricious film to date which swings so boldly between moods and tones it feels like a case of borderline personality disorder. Heightened autobiographical details may abound in this ode to fractured youth and cinefilia, but it revels in the realm of sentimental nostalgia, paying homage to early 1980s Naples.
Parsing through its various delights, Sorrentino once again borrows heavily from a Golden Age of Italian masters, and his latest often feels like a cobbling together of Fellini and Bellocchio.…...
There’s almost as much to admire as there is to dismiss in The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino’s most capricious film to date which swings so boldly between moods and tones it feels like a case of borderline personality disorder. Heightened autobiographical details may abound in this ode to fractured youth and cinefilia, but it revels in the realm of sentimental nostalgia, paying homage to early 1980s Naples.
Parsing through its various delights, Sorrentino once again borrows heavily from a Golden Age of Italian masters, and his latest often feels like a cobbling together of Fellini and Bellocchio.…...
- 11/30/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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