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He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. [2] . He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards.
Mar 19, 2014 · The director applies the Fellinian principle of accumulation, adding meanings rather than facts, inserting new characters while abandoning familiar ones, positing dichotomies and juxtapositions that will be progressively diluted into one magmatic fresco. Sorrentino claims that his film is not “about” Rome, but that it encompasses it.
- B. 31 May, 1970, Naples, Campania, Italy
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The comparisons to Federico Fellini may be seen as both a blessing and a curse for Paolo Sorrentino. On one hand, the lofty likening to one of world cinema’s grand masters surely testifies to the quality of Sorrentino’s own work. And indeed, the two Italian auteurs do share numerous narrative and thematic affinities linking their films as imposing ...
The Hand of God(2021), also writerThe New Pope(2019-2020), TV mini-series, also writerLoro(2018), also writerThe Young Pope(2016), TV mini-series, also writerKilbourn, Russell, J.A., The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style(New York: Wallflower, 2020).Mariani, Annachiara, ed., Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television(Bristol, UK/Chicago: Intellect, 2021)Italian director Paolo Sorrentino speaks about Federico Fellini's masterpiece "Roma" (1972), and Fellini's influence on his filmography.
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Dec 3, 2021 · With his rich coming-of-age drama “The Hand of God,” Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino not only courts, but squashes comparisons to formative maestro Federico Fellini.
Dec 12, 2016 · In the below excerpt, Sorrentino explains why Roma stands among Fellini’s greatest achievements and how his technical mastery is matched by his emotional depth. Federico Fellini’s love letter to his home city, Roma, is a hallucinatory blend of everyday observations and extravagant spectacle.
Dec 12, 2013 · Paolo Sorrentino's film takes us on a meditative Roman sojourn, mixing humor and melancholy in a cinematic style indebted to the great Italian director Federico Fellini.
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