Paolo Sorrentino on Venice Opener ‘La Grazia’ and Casting Toni Servillo as a Lovable Italian President: ‘I Wanted to Depict What a Politician Should Be Like’

Paolo Sorrentino re-teams with “The Great Beauty” star Toni Servillo on his latest film “La Grazia,” which opens the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night. In the multi-layered moral drama, Servillo plays a fictional president of Italy named Mariano De Santis who is conflicted about whether he should sign into law a bill that would […]