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‘In The Hand Of Dante’ Starring Oscar Isaac Receives A Divine 9 1/2-Minute Ovation In Venice
The film interweaves a literary gangster mystery with a quest for Dante Alighieri's original manuscript, featuring dual timelines and a star-studded cast including Oscar Isaac and Al Pacino.
- At the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante premiered Out of Competition and drew a 9 1/2-minute ovation on Wednesday.
- After a long development, Schnabel adapted Nick Tosches's 2002 novel with screenplay by Schnabel and Louise Kugelberg; Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil optioned rights in 2008 before Oscar Isaac joined in 2023.
- The film cross-cuts 700 years between colourful 14th-century Dante Alighieri sequences and black-and-white early-2000s scenes where Oscar Isaac plays both Dante and Nick Tosches, focusing on authenticating The Divine Comedy manuscript.
- At Venice, critics flagged the film's sprawling 150-minute Venice cut, with walkouts starting twenty minutes in; no U.S. distribution has been announced, while WME Independent and CAA Media Finance handle sales.
- With a Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award in hand, Julian Schnabel, filmmaker, blends literary history and gangster pulp, featuring a star ensemble and highlighting Hollywood's rare attention to Dante Alighieri 700 years on.
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Dante Alighieri’s journey to hell, in the Divine comedy, ends when he finally sees the stars again. Julian Schnabel’s latest film also features a few. And somehow, they helped the director to leave behind his own abyss. Here is the film’s most involuntary tribute to the Italian poet, the nerve centre of the project, entitled In the Hand of Dante. The long one was buried under all kinds of unforeseen and may well have stayed forever in some demon…
‘In The Hand Of Dante’ Starring Oscar Isaac Receives A Divine 9 1/2-Minute Ovation In Venice
In the Hand of Dante, writer-director Julian Schnabel’s ambitious adaptation of the Nick Tosches novel that moves between the 14th and 21st centuries, received a 9 1/2-minute ovation after its world premiere Wednesday night at the Venice Film Festival. Oscar Isaac stars in the pic alongside Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, Jason Momoa, Louis Cancelmi, […]
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