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?

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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

Apr 17, 2026

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, 2026

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, 2026

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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Nicolás Medina

Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat

Aug 17, 2026

7/10

In its refusal to take possession of what does not belong to him, there is a form of cinema that is strangely moving. [Full review in Spanish]

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Leandro Ariel Porcelli

Cinéfilo Serial

May 21, 2026

9/10

A story that aims to find some of life's truths by way of a comforting fantasy in which power is compatible with a moral compass. Offers good laughs and a worthwhile meditation on what makes life worth living. [Full review in Spanish]

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

May 16, 2026

4.5/5

A brilliant film that explores the world of politics in a way rarely seen on the screen. A beautiful acting performance from Toni Servillo made even better by a remarkable screenplay.

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Tushar G

Jan 7, 2026

what a perfect movie

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Lucia

Jan 5, 2026

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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Judith K

@ziqiongmom 3 days ago

A great movie about the difficulties of aging and dealing with the end of an illustrious career. This is a meditative film which is slow going at first. However, it's worth sticking with it to see how the former Italian president manages to make peace with his life.

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The Experienced Traveler T

@RT28296208 Oct 22, 2026

Sadly another recent result of poor or complete lack of talent trying to tackle a sublime theme. We immediately understand the intention of this film : an aging and noble Politocrat confronts the option of aging into a more vigorous life and rekindling existant remnants of youth, which will bring him new freedom and heal the carried loss of his wife. However the execution is first-year film school. Slow, plodding, unnecessary and incongruous scenes demonstrate that we are in the hands of an amateur filmmaker who lacks the understanding and technique to portray the subtleties of the protagonists’s internal conflicts and how to manage their transformation. It feels like someone gave a teenager the keys to the car, and although he didnt kill anyone, when the car was returned home it had empty wrappers and traces of vomit in the back seat.

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Rodney O

@Rodka Aug 3, 2026

A perfect visual blend of morality, mortality, love, life, power and so much more. Many images will live with me forever. Style and substance and cinematography to weep over.

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ron B

@blomm Jul 7, 2026

The camerawork is so gorgeous, it makes the spoken platitutes almost sound profound.

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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?

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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