Sorrentino
Americannoun
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But there’s a grayer, graver tone to the long shadows of “La Grazia,” as if the natural, appealing gravitas of Servillo playing an important man fighting a planned obsolescence was the only palette Sorrentino and cinematographer Daria D’Antonio needed.
From Los Angeles Times
And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.
From Los Angeles Times
The Newstead announcement comes a day after Meta said it had hired two Apple designers, Alan Dye and Billy Sorrentino.
As played by Toni Servillo in director Paolo Sorrentino’s beautifully evocative character study “La Grazia,” President Mariano De Santis is a stand-in for any number of senior men whose dependability gets taken for granted by family, and by society.
Mr. Sorrentino, who also wrote the screenplay, finds a wonderful image to express what the president is going through when he sees a video feed showing an Italian astronaut living in a zero-gravity space station.
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