Grace (La Grazia)

Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Italy, 2025, 130'

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Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino
Cinematography: Daria D'Antonio
Music: Nick Donnelly
Cast: Toni Servillo (Mariano de Santis), Anna Ferzetti (Dorotea De Santis), Orlando Cinque (Colonnello Labaro), Massimo Venturiello (Ugo Romani), Milvia Marigliano (Coco Valori), Giuseppe Gaiani (Lanfranco Mare), Giovanna Guida (Valeria Cafiero), Alessia Giuliani (Maria Gallo), Roberto Zibetti (Domenico Samaritano), Linda Messerklinger (Isa Rocca), Vasco Mirandola (Cristiano Arpa)
Producer: The Apartment & Numero10 & PiperFilm
Distribution: Fivia

Director Paolo Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo in this tale of hard decisions. Best Actor Award at Venice 2025.

Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled with his private life, in ways that seem impossible to unravel. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this remarkable Italian President will do.

As a young man I was profoundly struck by Kieślowski's Decalogue. A masterpiece entirely focused on moral dilemmas; the plot of all plots, the only truly compelling narrative. More than any thriller. I don't believe I have even remotely approached the genius of Kieślowski, nor the depth with which he tackled moral themes, but I felt compelled to try anyway, in a historical moment when ethics sometimes seems optional, elusive, opaque, or all too often invoked only for instrumental reasons. Ethics is a serious matter. It holds up the world. And Mariano De Santis is a serious man.
Paolo Sorrentino

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