DVD review: Il Divo

Artificial Eye (cert 15)
Rental and retail
3 out of 5 3
  1. Il Divo
  2. Production year: 2008
  3. Countries: Italy, Rest of the world
  4. Cert (UK): 15
  5. Runtime: 117 mins
  6. Directors: Paolo Sorrentino
  7. Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci, Giulio Bosetti, Paolo Graziosi, Piera Degli Esposti, Toni Servillo
  8. More on this film

After the creepily effective The Family Friend, writer-director Paolo Sorrentino takes on the far harder task of interesting us in Giulio Andreotti, the three-times Italian PM who survived while many associates and opponents met sudden deaths, notably kidnapped PM Aldo Moro. In an impossibly tangled tale, lead Toni Servillo walks like a sleepwalker, talks without inflection and looks expressionless and colourless, like Geoffrey Howe with Charles Clarke's ears. It is astonishing that a film so accusatory can be made about a living character, and an unconvicted one.

Today's best video

Latest reviews

Today in pictures