{"id":6159,"date":"2009-07-23T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2009-07-23T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:33:07","slug":"competition-il-divo-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/07\/23\/competition-il-divo-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: Il Divo on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Il-Divo-DVD-Toni-Servillo\/dp\/B002753V20%3FSubscriptionId%3D02E5W5871AJF7PMMMS82%26tag%3Dfilmdetail-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB002753V20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51xI-c4axOL._SL500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a>We have 3 DVD copies of<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Il-Divo-DVD-Toni-Servillo\/dp\/B002753V20%3FSubscriptionId%3D02E5W5871AJF7PMMMS82%26tag%3Dfilmdetail-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB002753V20\">Il Divo<\/a><\/strong> give away courtesy of Artificial Eye.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0815204\/\">Paolo Sorrentino<\/a>, it explores the extraordinary career of former Italian prime minister\u00a0<a title=\"Giulio Andreotti\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Andreotti\">Giulio Andreotti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning the period since the seventh election of Andreotti (brilliantly played 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> in 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 was a firm favourite on the festival circuit in the past year and was nominated for the\u00a0<a title=\"Palme D'Or\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palme_D%27Or\">Palme D&#8217;Or<\/a> at the\u00a0<a title=\"2008 Cannes Film Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Cannes_Film_Festival\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a> in 2008, where it won 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>A worthy recipient of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/ildivo\">universal critical acclaim<\/a>, it is a riveting story also notable for some dazzling camerawork and editing which make it one of the best films to be released in the UK this year.<\/p>\n<p>Extras include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anamorphic Widescreen<\/li>\n<li>Stereo and 5.1<\/li>\n<li>English subtitles<\/li>\n<li>The making of Il Divo (31mins)<\/li>\n<li>Additional interviews with director Paolo Sorrentino (29mins)<\/li>\n<li>Special effects featurette (7mins)<\/li>\n<li>Deleted Scenes (12mins)<\/li>\n<li>Trailer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: url(http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/media\/img\/flash.gif); background-position: 50% 50%; border: 1px dotted #cc0000;\" title=\"&quot;allowFullScreen&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot;:&quot;always&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FOBwGVOaCCg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;hd=1&quot;,&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;:&quot;true&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/media\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To stand a chance of winning a copy just answer this question:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Which film did Paolo Sorrentino direct in 2004?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just email your answers and postal address to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:competitions@filmdetail.com\">competitions@filmdetail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closing Date: Thursday 6th August 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Il Divo<\/em><\/strong><em> is out on Monday 27th July on DVD from Artificial Eye<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/19\/interview-paolo-sorrentino-on-il-divo\/\">Listen to our interview with Paolo Sorrentino about the film<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0815204\/\">Paolo Sorrentino<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckyred.it\/ildivo\/\">Official website for Il Divo<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<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>Win a copy of Il Divo on DVD, the hugely acclaimed film about former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[873],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159"}],"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=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}