“I don’t like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The Hand Of God.” Sitting on a mountain, looking to the sky, the heavens, for answers, Fabietto should know. Reality has given him a raw deal; tragedy and heartbreak, the kind that no kid should experience that young.

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Since his directorial debut in 2001, Paolo Sorrentino has become one of the premier auteurs in Italian cinema. Now, Sorrentino looks to further cement his legacy as his next film, “The Hand Of God,” vies for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this September.

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In his most personal film to date, Sorrentino looks back on his youth in a semi-autobiographical tale about an Italian teen coming of age in the mid-1980s.

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