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This movie is the attempt to provide a human image to a corrupted politician that was a theft in Italy and finished humiliated escaping from italian justice. This movie tries to improve his image as an important politician: a pure propaganda attempt to increase the public image. Italian television financed the movie and this is another incredible bad usage of italian taxes. The movie is also financed by Agostino Saccà very close to Berlusconi, a man that built his fortunes with Craxi.

Uscito oggi. Visto al cinema.

Il film è fatto bene e le due ore scorrono veloci senza sosta. Tratta una parte della vita di Craxi che vi lascio scoprire quando andrete al cinema.

Favino è un attore dalle capacità ormai eccelse ed è un peccato che sia italiano, essendo il cinema italiano poco quotato all'estero: se fosse americano o francese avrebbe già vinto un Oscar o premi di rilevanza simile.

Gli altri attori ruotano tutti attorno a Craxi e quindi sembrano tutti secondari.

Il film è ben diretto, senza pause, ottima fotografia, ottime musiche.

Speriamo vinca molti premi.

If you grant (a lot of) indulgence to the controversial protagonist, you'll enjoy this nostalgic movie (Amelio is the right director), taste some subtleties, and praise the great performance of the lead actor - "adesso li fa tutti Favino", and for a very good reason - and the whole cast. On the other side, even forgetting about history, you'll also notice the flaws: the most important political facts are just fainted, the identities are hidden (even ridiculously, as for Craxi's sons), there's no real plot (the Vincenzo's son escamotage does not work) which contribuites to the image of a insufferable crumbling king

Main actor is great, movie has some nice parts but the pace is slow and expecially at the end loses grip. Maybe it needs a better cut. How accurate its' historically is also a nice question....

The movie doesn't talk about politics, doesn't talk about the rise and the fall of the Socialist party, doesn't even talk about the interesting part of Craxi's life. Technically speaking it's really well-made, but where is the plot?