Three years after Roma, Netflix has given another Oscar-winning filmmaker the money and the means to make a semi-autobiographical film about their youth. Imagine what a terrific triple bill we’d have gotten had Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast also landed with the streamer.The Hand of God 2021 Movie Download.
A welcome departure from his usual extravagant style, The Hand of God finds director Paolo Sorrentino in an unexpectedly meditative mood. Gone are the sudden bursts of surrealism that have come to define his work in the last decade—no half-naked Popes strutting to Jimi Hendrix here, although that doesn’t mean Sorrentino has lost his fascination for the naked human body, or moments of musical magic. But while The Hand of God certainly flirts with flamboyance on a couple of occasions, it’s a largely restrained coming-of-age tale about a teenager whose carefree life is rudely interrupted by an awful tragedy.
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Sorrentino divides the movie into roughly two halves—the first is a slice-of-life comedy, in which you never realise a scene has ended until you’re a couple of minutes into the next one. Our hero Fabietto spends his days lounging in bed, a Walkman perpetually hanging from his neck; an accessory more than a distraction. In the evenings, he fantasises about his voluptuous aunt Patrizia, but never with the sort of enthusiasm with which he imagines a world where Diego Maradona plays for his home team, Napoli.The film is set against the backdrop of a particularly exciting time for fans of the southern Italian club, who spent an entire summer in 1984 speculating whether the greatest footballer in the world would, against all odds, ditch a successful career in Barcelona and move to their neck of the woods.