Paolo Sorrentino cries. He hadn’t even done that when he won the Oscar. This is too intimate, personal, profound It was the hand of God, which has just collected a very honorable Grand Jury Prize, that is a second place in Venice 78. The director de The great beauty he was moved in several points of his speech, but sincere tears flowed when he recalled the friendship with the producer who believed in him from the beginning and still follows him today, Nicola Giuliano and his Indigo Film.
Sorrentino then thanked his wife Daniela D’Antonio (“who has been putting up with me for twenty years”), then joked about who still tells him ‘another film with an actor Toni Servillo?”(Sorrentino’s extraordinary father here ed) affirming:“ Here, look with Toni Servillo where I arrived ”. Finally, a couple of anecdotes about two cut sequences. The first is the one in which there would have been “a little man of one and sixty in the middle of the field thanking (and luckily he took it away, we add)” and for the transitive property the little man, or Maradona “Now thanks you (the jury ed); and finally an episode concerning the real funeral of the parents – in this work the tragic event of the disappearance of the director’s parents is told -: “At the time the headmaster authorized only four of my companions to come and I was very upset, but today I’m happy because the whole class has come”Concluded Sorrentino pointing to an enthusiastic audience who loved the film unconditionally.
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