IL DIVO ("The Star"): Director Paolo Sorrentino and Star Toni Servillo serve up Giulio Andreotti aka 'The Fox', 'The Black Pope'

Directed by Napoletan writer and director Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo as former Italian Prime Minister (and current "Senator for Life") Giulio Andreotti, Il Divo is an intense, sharp and insightful film about politics and corruption. To paraphrase the film, "Sometimes you must do evil to do good." Servillo, made up here with hunched back and bent ears, like a hobbit crossed Mathew Barney's Cremaster, appeared recently in Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's unique mob "true story" thriller based on Roberto Saviano's "New Italian Epic" book of the same title.

Dramatic, colorful, extravagantly cinematic, and artful with excellent cast, photography and editing, IL DIVO is a must see. Now at the Sunshine Cinema on East Houston Street -- Madonn' -- don't miss it.

--Brooklyn Beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fc8k2UARE

Official site: http://www.luckyred.it/ildivo/sito_en/intro.html