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?

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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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Mar 26

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

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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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Mar 23

It’s a pensive, soulful work elevated by Servillo’s superb performance. But the director’s penchant for wistful shots of the leader in various scenic locations means there are long stretches of the film in which nothing of consequence is happening.

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John McDonald

johnmcdonald.net.au

3d

...for Mariano to find and exercise Grace in office, he has to find it in his own life.

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Pedro Gallego

Espinof

3d

4/5

...a serene yet recognizable sensory experience that immerses us in the world of public power. [Full review in Spanish]

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Apr 2

Decay, loneliness, and the importance of memory...appear once again, but now awareness, temperance, forgiveness, and doubt are the central issues in a stimulating film that delves deep within.[Full review in Spanish]

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Tushar G

Jan 7

what a perfect movie

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Lucia

Jan 5

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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Damian O

@Alcatraz Apr 2

Classic film making where the subtle art of gently demonstrating thought is floated to the audience with skill and sensitivity. A masterpiece.

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Ralph B

@Rebell50 Mar 22

So much philosophy annd so much style. Deeply thought provoking and moving around the thorny contempory issues.

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Alec B

@Alec97 Feb 27

Definitely one of the better movies about a man who seems incapable of making decisions. Wisdom may come with age but sometimes weighing all those options can paralyze you. Maybe then you try to pick grace over everything else. Its strangely beguiling work and one worth revisiting.

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Unique C.

@uniquecliches Feb 20

A movie that probably needs more than one watch to be fully appreciated — the superfluous will probably fall away with each viewing. It’s a bit long and could surely have been edited into something tighter. At times it reads like a poem; at others, it feels almost banal and prosaic. But all in all, it has moments that promise to linger with us. A president nearing the end of his tenure must decide on whether to grant pardons in cases where partners killed their spouses, and also whether to sign a law concerning euthanasia. All the while, he struggles with memories of past lovers and a complicated family dynamic. Who owns our days? And can we learn to dream again?

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Synopsis

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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