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Il Divo

  • 21-03-2009 12:32pm
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    bnt
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    Saw this at the IFI last night, and it's slightly mind-blowing. It helps if you read a little about Italian politics in advance, since it revolves around Giulio Andreotti, who was Prime Minister three times, before his party collapsed under the weight of corruption. It covers the later period in his life when he was investigated for connections to the Mafia, relating to various murders and kidnappings.

    But it's not a straight telling of the facts: Andreotti and the characters around him are deeply weird. His main "enforcer" looks and talks like an Italian Larry David, so I kept getting flashbacks to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Andreotti carries himself like a "small" man, sits hunched up with his hands on his knees, yet can dominate a room with a few soft, well-chosen words.

    Add in the flashy director, who uses slow-motion explosions, strange angles and extreme close-ups, over an electropop soundtrack... it's a trip, man. A strange Italian Mafioso Political trip. I'm not going to try to review it: The Guardian did a better job than I could. :pac:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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