Venice Film Festival, Sorrentino’s tears

Venice Film Festival, director Paolo Sorrentino lets himself go to tears. “I am slightly excited,” he said, receiving the Silver Lion of the Grand Jury Prize for the film ‘It Was the Hand of God’. During the thank-you speech, he broke into tears and continued to speak with shining eyes. Among other things, Sorrentino thanked his “wife who has been putting up with me for 20 years”. Then he joked: “To whom does he tell me but why are you making another film with Toni Servillo, I say: look where I have come by making films with Toni Servillo”. The director then cited two images that are not in the film: “In one we see Maradona thanking him from a football field, and this is perhaps the greatest prize for him. The other scene takes me back to the day of the funeral of my parents. Then the principal sent only four boys and not the whole class and I was upset, but it doesn’t matter anymore, because today the whole class came, which is you. “