Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God | A Love Letter to Naples and to Cinema

The cast and crew of Paolo Sorrentino's deeply personal film The Hand of God speak about the experience of crafting this 1980s-set Neapolitan coming-of-age saga, the arrival of an exciting new talent in actor Filippo Scotti, themes of family and change, looking to the future and much more.

Academy Award^® Nominated Director Julian Schnabel discusses The Hand of God, Italy’s official submission for International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards^®, with Paolo Sorrentino, Director and Writer of the film.

Actors Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Luisa Ranieri, Filippo Scotti and Marlon Joubert join cinematographer Daria D'Antonio in discussing the magnetism of filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino and the experience of collaborating with him on his deeply personal film The Hand of God.

Sorrentino says he looked at the 1980s-set Neapolitan coming-of-age story as if it were his first movie, a deep dive into his past that adopted a simpler style and avoided period aesthetics in order to foreground his own lived-in drama.

Venice prizewinner Filippo Scotti discusses what it was like to portray a surrogate for director Paolo Sorrentino in The Hand of God. Sorrentino and co-star Toni Servillo talk about the talented newcomer's gifts as an actor and the inner life he illustrates with his work.

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