Paolo Sorrentino

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Paolo Sorrentino, 2018

Paolo Sorrentino (born May 31, 1970 in Naples ) is an Italian screenwriter , film director and writer .

Life

Sorrentino became famous in Germany with his film Il Divo , in which part of the life of the multiple Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his alleged Mafia connections are portrayed. He worked several times with the leading actor Toni Servillo on his film projects.

In 2010 Sorrentino made his first English-language film, Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place , starring Sean Penn in the lead role of an aging rock musician who goes in search of the tormentor of his late Jewish father, a concentration camp guard who went underground in the USA. The film, which was released in German cinemas in November 2011, celebrated its international premiere in 2011 in the competition at the 64th Cannes International Film Festival . His film La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty won the Oscar and the Golden Globe in the category Best Foreign Language Film as well as four European Film Awards in 2014 .

In La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty followed Sorrentino's second English-language film Eternal Youth (Youth) , who with Michael Caine , Rachel Weisz , Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel occupied prominent and 2015 was released. Like La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty Before, Eternal Youth was also awarded the European Film Prize in the categories of Best Film and Best Director .

In 2016 he was invited to the 73rd Venice Film Festival with the first two episodes of the English-language television miniseries The Young Pope . It tells the fictional story of the American Lenny Belardo, played by Jude Law , who as Pius XIII is elected the first American pope and upsets the structures of the Vatican.

In 2017 Sorrentino was appointed to the competition jury of the 70th Cannes Film Festival . In the same year it became known that a renewed collaboration with Toni Servillo is planned. In the film Loro , the actor embodies Italy's ex-prime minister and media entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi .

In 2019 it was announced that Sorrentino would collaborate with Jennifer Lawrence in his next film . The actress will slip into the role of Arlyne Brickman, an informant about the US Mafia , in Mob Girl , the adaptation of the same book by Teresa Carpenter .

The New Pope, a sequel to the TV series The Young Pope, has been announced for 2020 . Again the first two episodes were shown at an international film festival, this time at the 76th Venice Film Festival . The New Pope is slated to air on Sky Atlantic from January 2020. On December 10, 2019, HBO released the first trailer for the new series, which shows John Malkovich in the robes of the new Pope.

Filmography

Texts

Awards (selection)

  • 2002: Nastro d'Argento as the best young director for: L'uomo in più
  • 2005: David di Donatello for best director and best screenplay for: Le conseguenze dell'amore
  • 2009: Nastro d'Argento for best director and best screenplay for: Il Divo
  • 2013: European Film Award : Best Film, Best Director for La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty (and: Best Actor, Best Editing)
  • 2013: Nastro d'Argento : La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty was awarded in the following categories: Best Supporting Actress ( Sabrina Ferilli ), Best Supporting Actor ( Carlo Verdone ), Best Sound (Emanuele Cecere)
  • 2014: British Academy Film Awards : Best Non-English Language Film for La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty
  • 2015: European Film Award : Best Film, Best Director for Eternal Youth (and: Best Actor)

In addition, Sorrentino's directorial work La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 2014 for its Italian contribution .

Web links

Commons : Paolo Sorrentino  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Öller: La Roma campy. La rappresentazione della città eterna ne La grande bellezza di Sorrentino . In: Romance Studies . tape 2 , no. 5 . AVM, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95477-070-0 , pp. 279–298 ( romanischestudien.de ).
  2. ↑ The Young Pope ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org (accessed September 3, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  3. ↑ “Berlusconi's life as a film template | Nachrichten.at ". Accessed June 23, 2017. http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/society/Berlusconi-Leben-als-Filmvorlage;art411,2588396 .
  4. ↑ Justin Kroll, Justin Kroll: Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Paolo Sorrentino's 'Mob Girl'. In: Variety. July 24, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Davide Turrini: Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Paolo Sorrentino presenta "The New Pope": pensavate che Jude Law abbandonasse la serie? In: Il Fatto Quotidiano . September 1, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 'The New Pope', il 10 gennaio la nuova serie di Sorrentino. In: La Repubblica . November 26, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ HBO: The New Pope (2019): Official Trailer | HBO on YouTube , December 10, 2019; accessed December 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sorrentino, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian screenwriter, film director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy