La Grazia

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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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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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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

6d

Most assuredly, though, this is a duo of director and star once more moving in concert together, maybe not as confidently as with some previous efforts, but with a knowing intelligence.

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

Dec 6

3/4

It’s a startling image, in a movie full of startling, sometimes unexpected ones (like that of a robot dog making a late entrance in this picture).

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Kyle Smith

Wall Street Journal

Dec 5

Mr. Sorrentino is only in his 50s (and Mr. Servillo, in his 60s, is younger than the man he portrays), yet he has made a film about seniority that captures its subject so sensitively that it is, in an unassuming way, glorious.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

2d

I’m not sure it actually has anything to say. And this director has been gilding a sort of old windbag’s wistfulness for “the good old days” so long already, where can he go from here?

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

6d

Once a movie goer accepts that "La Grazia" is an all-forms-of-love-story about a man beloved for being cautious and thoughtful, it is easier to get into the rhythm of the film.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Dec 11

La Grazia is an elegant and contemplative character study about a fictional Italian president during the last days of his final term. This drama includes his dilemmas on how to handle a euthanasia bill, pardons for murderers, and grief over his dead wife.

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@Archbid Dec 13

Quiet, beautiful, and just deep enough not to be oppressive. The cinematography makes you ache, perhaps because it shows landscapes that don’t exist any more, not in any real, accessible sense. La Grazia is nuance, real acting, and real emotional texture. It is a quiet movie that rewards attention, not because its intricacies will confuse a distracted audience member, but because you want to see each facial expression and every tiny atmospheric detail. If you have any sense of poetry, watch this movie.

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@M.J.C. Dec 12

Beautifully layered with meaning that stirs both the heart and intellect. Classic Sorrentino! Grateful for such experiences on the screen.

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Moody C

@MoodyC Dec 9

Wow, so unbelievably boring. Just a few days on life of an Italian President with no specific plot. All style but no substance.

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virginia s

@Ginny72 Dec 7

Such a beautiful, thought-provoking movie—with another amazing performance by the great Toni Servillo.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Dec 5

Success in 02 hours and 11 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worldwide gross is $12,820.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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): $47.4K
Runtime: 2h 11m