From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Great Beauty, The Young Pope), comes the story of a boy, Fabietto Schisa, in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s. The Hand of God is a story full of unexpected joys, such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and an equally unexpected tragedy. Fate plays its part, joy and tragedy intertwine, and Fabietto’s future is set in motion. Sorrentino returns to his hometown to tell his most personal story, a tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss.—Netflix
According to Paolo Sorrentino, it was Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018), which was based on Cuaron’s childhood in Mexico City, that gave Sorrentino permission to commit his own experience to film. For Sorrentino realized that “a personal, private film could tell a universal story.”
