(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 26 - At a certain point in a career that has already received very great awards starting with the Oscarper La Grande Bellezza, Paolo Sorrentino has chosen to rethink himself, to look back from where he started: Naples, the city of childhood, parents lost too soon, the place of delirium for Diego Maradona still vivid today. The protective anti-Covid mask he wore at the Cannes festival where he awarded Marco Bellocchio with the palm of honor on the face of Maradona and the inscription Everywhere protect me. And this tells a lot about the not severed but only suspended bond of Sorrento and of those formative years that now, exactly 20 years after the first film The Extra Man with Toni Servillo, becomes a fairly autobiographical tale of destiny and family, cinema shoots,love and loss in the story of Fabietto, a young girl in the tumultuous Naples of the 80s. E 'was the hand of God is the title of the film expected and with which it is competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, for once betraying the Cannes Film Festival.
Produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Paolo Sorrentino, a The Apartment production, will be released in selected cinemas and on Netflix in 2021 (as did Cuaron for Rome). The inhospitable Cannes for Netflix is one of the reasons (hopefully not the only one) of the world premiere in Venice with what he himself defined as "homecoming, an intimate and personal film, a cheerful and painful coming-of-age novel". In the cast, alongside Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, LuisaRanieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Enzo Decaro, also neighbors and relatives and characters such as San Gennaro. (HANDLE).