The Italian director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino will give a masterclass and present È Stata La Mano di Dio / The Hand of God, following its screening at Venice Festival. The author of La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty will talk about his latest film and its connections with the seventh art at the Tabakalera cinema on Wednesday 22, from 19:00-20:30.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Paolo Sorrentino (Naples, Italy. 1970) debuted with L'uomo in più / One Man Up, 2001, screened in Cinema del Presente, at Venice. This was followed by Le conseguenze dell'amore /The Consequences of Love, 2004, which competed at the Festival de Cannes, to which he returned in 2006 with L'amico di famiglia / The Family Friend); in 2008 with Il Divo, winner of the Jury Prize; in 2011 with This Must Be the Place; in 2013 with La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; and in 2016 with Youth, winner of three European Film Awards. Completing his filmography are Loro (2018) and È stata la mano di Dio /The Hand of God, which competed in Venice. He has also directed the series The Young Pope (2016) and The New Pope (2019).