Life sometimes depends on a place in the gallery.
The fate of Paolo Sorrentino could have been stopped at 16, in the mountain chalet where his parents, asphyxiated with carbon monoxide, suddenly lost their lives.
But the kid, who had sworn from the arrival of Maradona in the Naples team not to miss a match at the San Paolo stadium, had declined the ski vacation.
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If the "Hand of God" evokes to supporters of the football planet the "miraculous" goal scored by the Argentinian in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, it therefore finds a new meaning in the eyes of cinephiles: it is she who saved the life of another figure of the country.
The expression thus became the title of the Italian director's most personal film.
By rewinding the thread of his memories, he retraced, in the form of a very moving initiatory story, his adolescence in the heart of a colorful family and took the opportunity to sign a magnificent declaration of love to his hometown. .
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