The Hand of God - Reviews

Everything comes oversized in The Hand of God: the colors, the characters, the gestures.

I’m impressed that it’s emerged so full of bawdy vigour; still raw in the retelling and spiced with delicious set pieces.

Paolo Sorrentino relives his teens in a film of two halves.

Paolo Sorrentino’s extravagantly personal movie gives us all a sentimental education in this director’s boyhood and coming of age...

Will have you absolutely salivating for Italy.

The film thrives on details–it is the very soul of the film.

...feels like a Sorrentino movie because it’s about finding character in unexpected places and making it seem both true to life and completely overwhelming.

...a beautiful coming-of-age story and a love letter to both director Paolo Sorrentino's native Naples and the art of filmmaking.

By the time this tremblingly personal movie comes to an end, Sorrentino has shown us how he made that life into his reality.

Paolo Sorrentino bares his soul in this autobiographical coming-of-age story about teenage obsessions.

A wistful, winking cinematic scrapbook of growing up in 1980s Naples.

It’s a personal, aching, and romantic film that’s swimming in the complicated trials of youth.

Sorrentino uses many magic realism motifs to depict this conflict of reality and fiction. And with those elements, the film beautifully portrays the growing up in life.

...en bemærkelsesværdig, modig bedrift af en kunstner, som lægger sin signaturstil fra sig og fortæller om sin ungdom på en måde, der er øm, bevægende og oprigtig.

Ett nostalgiskt verk som pekar på tidigare nostalgiska verk, i ett enda härligt cineastisk kramkalas.