I first discovered the cinema of Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino in 2008 when I saw "Il Divo" at Cannes, which stars the incandescent Toni Servillo as former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Even though the biopic did a deep dive into decades of arcane Machiavellian politics in Italy, the movie was utterly accessible because Servillo carried you through.

My second encounter with Sorrentino was also at Cannes, with his first English-language film "This Must be the Place," which features a great performance from Sean Penn as an aging expat rocker who returns to his roots in America after his father dies, but didn't quite come together--Sorrentino's English has definitely improved since then.

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