Line between truth and fiction becomes too blurry in The Hand of God
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Line between truth and fiction becomes too blurry in The Hand of God

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino has changed the rules of the game in this lightly fictionalised autobiography.

  • byJake Wilson

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