La Grazia

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La Grazia

R

2025

2h 11m

Drama

Romance

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From Academy and BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. Toni Servillo -- winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival -- stars as Italy's outgoing president, Mariano De Santis, navigating moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrentino's signature poetic vision and an evocative soundtrack, this heartfelt masterwork is an intimate meditation on fatherhood, conscience, and the enduring question: who owns our days?

Critics Consensus

Celebrating the virtues of fortitude and patience, La Grazia is an atypically restrained effort from writer-director Paolo Sorrentino that reunites him with the dependably majestic Toni Servillo.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

4d

3.5/5

Either La Grazia is Sorrentino’s best movie in a while, or it’s taken me this long to acquire a taste for the strange flavour of his work, where the studied weirdness masks the actual weirdness beneath.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Mar 26

Servillo gives the film its heart. His performance is never theatrical, quite the opposite. But every pause, hesitation, silence, speaks volumes about his character’s burdens. That face does its work. It’s a face that cannot bore.

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Philip De Semlyen

Time Out

Mar 24

4/5

La Grazia sees Sorrentino at his most sober and sincere, and his doleful muse, Servillo, at his formidable best.

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Mauricio Jarufe Caballero

Cinencuentro

1d

[Paolo Sorrentino's] films remind us that other ways of seeing the world (more beautiful and more decadent) are possible, and, with La Grazia, he suggests that this can also apply to politics. [Full review in Spanish]

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Leonardo Garcia Tsao

La Jornada

Apr 13

With La Grazia, Sorrentino has made his strongest case yet for convincing skeptics of his talent. [Full review in Spanish]

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John McDonald

johnmcdonald.net.au

Apr 9

...for Mariano to find and exercise Grace in office, he has to find it in his own life.

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Tushar G

Jan 7

what a perfect movie

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Lucia

Jan 5

Anyone who appreciates the storytelling style of Paolo Sorrentino and his collaborative process with Toni Servillo will want to see this film — another fresh take on self reflection, lifes meaning, the importance of whats true or not true, and the impact of the choices we make. I was captivated for the entire 2 hrs and 11 minutes.

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Howie B

@Howie10 Apr 14

Servillo is perfectly cast and portrays the Italian President with grace and believability. The proposition that a judge is placed in this role as decider of a law on euthanasia is both profound and complex. A black pontiff was perhaps a stretch, but the point of the dilemma is not distracted by this. Relationships with his children and the on-going grief of the passing of his wife as well as a deep rooted obsession with not knowing who was a lover his wife had some 40 years ago. He had convinced himself a life long friend was the one. This added another layer of intrigue as his decision to resign early so as to have a vote on the next President could be assured by his senator-for-life status. The other matter of Presidential pardons was explored well and his inquisitorial jurist background allowed him to conduct an investigation in the way he would have as a judge under the European system of law. Probably the the most abstract component of the film is his appreciation of rap music.

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Damian O

@Alcatraz Apr 2

Classic film making where the subtle art of gently demonstrating thought is floated to the audience with skill and sensitivity. A masterpiece.

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Ralph B

@Rebell50 Mar 22

So much philosophy annd so much style. Deeply thought provoking and moving around the thorny contempory issues.

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Alec B

@Alec97 Feb 27

Definitely one of the better movies about a man who seems incapable of making decisions. Wisdom may come with age but sometimes weighing all those options can paralyze you. Maybe then you try to pick grace over everything else. Its strangely beguiling work and one worth revisiting.

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Synopsis

From Academy and BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. Toni Servillo -- winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival -- stars as Italy's outgoing president, Mariano De Santis, navigating moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrentino's signature poetic vision and an evocative soundtrack, this heartfelt masterwork is an intimate meditation on fatherhood, conscience, and the enduring question: who owns our days?

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Producer: Annamaria Morelli, Paolo Sorrentino
Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Paolo Sorrentino
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: The Apartment, Numero 10
Rating: R (Some Language)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 5, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $131.7K
Runtime: 2h 11m

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