To appreciate the power and hope of Paolo Sorrentino ‘s latest film La Grazia , which opened the 2025 Venice Film Festival in competition, it is important to have some context of some of the past collaborations of the Oscar-winning director and his frequent star Toni Servillo .

In 2008, both gained international fame with Il Divo, in which Servillo gave an award-winning performance as Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Christian-Democratic Party. This was a ruthless power player who dominated Italy’s political scene with an iron fist for the second half of the 20th century. Ten years later Sorrentino would cast Servillo in the flamboyant Loro as the Machiavellian Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, a businessman to whom corruption was

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