Paolo Sorrentino

Sorrentino films Italy's powerful and its idle rich with gliding cameras, loud music and a great deal of style. Il Divo is about Giulio Andreotti, the politician who survived everything. In The Great Beauty, Jep Gambardella has spent decades in Rome's nightlife on the strength of one novel. The Hand of God goes home to Naples in the 1980s with a teenage boy. Parthenope follows a woman born in the sea at Naples through the long summers of her youth.

Signature

• Operatic camera movement set to pop and sacred music.
• Decadence and beauty in Rome and Naples.
• Toni Servillo in Il Divo and The Great Beauty.
• Autobiography (The Hand of God).