Il Divo at Cinematheque and Guarino’s in Little Italy
Cinematheque and Guarino’s
July 24, 2009
The Cleveland Independent Movie Group (www.meetup.com) will attend the July 24th showing of Il Divo at the Cleveland Institute of Art's Cinematheque at 7 p.m. Following the film the group will enjoy an Italian dinner at Guarino’s Restaurant in Little Italy, 12309 Mayfield Road, just east of Murray Hill, 216.231.3100. A nominal annual fee is charged to help offset website costs.
Il Divo Italy/France, 2008, Paolo Sorrentino Not Rated. In Italian with subtitles. Length 110 minutes.
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2008, Il Divo is writer/director Paolo Sorrentino's highly stylized satire of Italy's culture of political corruption that takes an insidious form beneath the stoic poker face of Italy's seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (played by Toni Servillo). At once hyperbolic and incredibly restrained, the narrative follows closely the day-to-day habits of a wicked politician who glides through the marbled corridors of power as if he were a ghost whose diabolical deeds are at all times invisible. Sorrentino's ever-moving camera captures the story's politically-charged violence and murders, overseen at a distance by Andreotti, with an air of cinematic verve that is electrifying. As a primer to modern Italian politics, "Il Divo" is like touring the subject in a candy-apple-red Ferrari. You might not learn much, but you will remember the experience.
Il Divo at Cinematheque and Guarino’s in Little Italy Cinematheque and Guarino’s July 24, 2009
