The Great Beauty Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino told the press at the Venice Film Festival that his latest film La Grazia which opens the 82nd edition of the world's oldest film fest Wednesday night was about "love, doubt and politics".
"A film about love.
Not just immediate love, which concerns history, but also love in the broader sense for a wife, a daughter, and also for institutions, for the law, and even love for a way of engaging in politics that is unfortunately increasingly out of date, one that was tied to the exercise of doubt and responsibility," the Il Divo, Youth, Hand of God, Loro and Pathenope helmer said about La grazia, which received much applause at Wednesday morning's press screening.
In the film, to be released in theaters on January 15, 2026, by PiperFilm, Mariano De Santis (his totemic actor Toni Servillo) is the fictional President of the Republic, a widower and Catholic who lives in the Quirinale Palace with his daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti), a jurist like himself.
He is now at the end of his term and must decide on two delicate requests for pardon, both related to euthanasia.
