The 78th Venice Movie Pageant – Screening of the movie ‘The Hand of God’ in competition- Purple Carpet Arrivals – Venice, Italy September 2, 2021 – Director Paolo Sorrentino poses. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
March 17 (Reuters) – For Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, scoring the second Oscar nomination of his profession this 12 months helped ease a few of his lingering insecurities as a filmmaker.
“This actually makes me completely happy and proud,” Sorrentino, whose film “The Hand of God” is up for a greatest worldwide function at this month’s Academy Awards, mentioned in an interview. “If the primary time might have been attributed to likelihood, the second proves that one has finished good work through the years.”
“Hand of God” will compete with Danish documentary “Flee” and Japanese movie “Drive My Automobile,” which is taken into account the frontrunner as a result of it was additionally nominated for greatest image, amongst others.
Not getting in as the favourite on the night time of March 27, when the golden statuettes will likely be awarded in Los Angeles, has eased the stress for Sorrentino, who received a 2014 Academy Award with the film “The Nice Magnificence.”
This 12 months, the Neapolitan director mentioned he plans to only benefit from the present.
Within the “The Hand of God,” a coming-of-age movie set in Eighties Naples, Sorrentino blended laughter and loss to retell the tragedy that befell his household when he was an adolescent.
The filmmaker’s mother and father had been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning on the night time the 17-year-old went to the stadium to observe one in every of his idols, late Argentine footballer Diego Maradona, play for his house group of Naples.
The movie’s title refers to Maradona’s description of his famed purpose in opposition to England on the 1986 World Cup.
Netflix, the place “The Hand of God” is streaming globally after a restricted theatrical launch in December, was the “supreme instrument” for a film coping with common themes like love and loss, Sorrentino mentioned.
“Most of us have skilled ache or a loss which have shifted the way in which we understand issues in life … and this, I feel, is common.”
Reporting by Maria Caspani; Modifying by Lisa Richwine and Richard Chang
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