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Film This Week in Film: Il Divo
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Dense, confusing, totally worth it, says Andrew Wright:
Winner of the Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Il Divo, the story of the legendarily shady Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, is a frenetic, sardonic M-80 of a movie that assumes a near-encyclopedic knowledge of its subject by its audience. Even accounting for a lengthy pre-title text info-dump, it quickly becomes baffling for anyone without a firm grip on recent Italian history. But, man alive, does it ever move.
Read the whole thing HERE.
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