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The Hand of God (2021)

R11/24/2021Drama2h 10m

Overview

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Filippo Scotti

    Fabietto Schisa

  2. Cast 1

    Toni Servillo

    Saverio Schisa

  3. Cast 1

    Teresa Saponangelo

    Maria Schisa

  4. Cast 1

    Luisa Ranieri

    Patrizia

  5. Cast 1

    Marlon Joubert

    Marchino Schisa

  6. Cast 1

    Massimiliano Gallo

    Franco

  7. Cast 1

    Betti Pedrazzi

    Baronessa Focale

  8. Cast 1

    Renato Carpentieri

    Alfredo

  9. Cast 1

    Enzo De Caro

    San Gennaro

Calling this a "coming-of-age" film is like calling Bud Lite a beer. They're not in the same class. I compare this film to my other favorite re-telling of a seminal childhood memory - Joanna Hogg's Souvenir. The great Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, once wrote "For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not till they have turned to blood within us, to glance and gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not till then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them." And that is visible here. Sorren...