{"id":5129,"date":"2009-03-19T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2009-03-19T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:46:02","slug":"interview-paolo-sorrentino-on-il-divo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/03\/19\/interview-paolo-sorrentino-on-il-divo\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Paolo Sorrentino on Il Divo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1023490\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5130\" title=\"Il Divo UK poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/il-divo-uk-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Il Divo UK poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0815204\/\">Paolo Sorrentino<\/a><\/strong> is the director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1023490\/\">Il Divo<\/a><\/strong>, a new film that explores the extraordinary career former Italian prime minister <a title=\"Giulio Andreotti\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Andreotti\">Giulio Andreotti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti (plyed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0785842\/\">Toni Servillo<\/a>)\u00a0as\u00a0<a title=\"Prime Minister of Italy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Italy\">Prime Minister of Italy<\/a>\u00a0in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the\u00a0<a title=\"Mafia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mafia\">Mafia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a favourite on the festival circuit in the past year and was nominated for the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Palme D'Or\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palme_D%27Or\">Palme D&#8217;Or<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a title=\"2008 Cannes Film Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Cannes_Film_Festival\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0last May, where it was awarded the\u00a0<a title=\"Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jury_Prize_(Cannes_Film_Festival)\">Prix du Jury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke with Paolo on the phone when <a href=\"http:\/\/jdiff.ticketsolve.com\/shows\/702390\/events\">the film screened at the Dublin Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Paolo_Sorrentino_on_Il_Divo.mp3]\n<p>You can download this\u00a0interview\u00a0as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Il Divo\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>is out at selected UK cinemas on Friday 20th March<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Paolo_Sorrentino_on_Il_Divo.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0815204\/\">Paolo Sorrentino<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckyred.it\/ildivo\/\">Official website for Il Divo<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a title=\"Giulio Andreotti\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Andreotti\">Find out more about Giulio Andreotti at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Sorrentino is the director of Il Divo, a new film that explores the extraordinary career former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti. It\u00a0spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti (plyed by\u00a0Toni Servillo)\u00a0as\u00a0Prime Minister of Italy\u00a0in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the\u00a0Mafia. It has been a favourite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[873,138,874,2796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}