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The Hand of God

Drama

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona. From TMDB

23 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews) · newest Aug 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 15, 2026 · How this works

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Paolo Sorrentino (with scenes from his film "The Hand of God") - BOTD

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  • Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    "It looked like the Hand of God had wiped away the coast." A powerful new Katrina film from @mississippitoday.org out Friday at 5 PM CT on YouTube. Honored to be among voices like Max Mayfield, Robert Ricks @drshepherd2013.bsky.social, @franklinjamesl.bsky.social, Gov. Haley Barbour, and others.

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  • Lord Sweatpants 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @lordsweatpants.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    1/2 There is a documentary, I believe it is called “The Hand of God”. It’s about the Boston archdiocese, Cardinal Law sex scandal. The film highlights the hubris of the church, how dare we mortals question them!

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  • Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    A sampling of what's here: - The Power of the Single Shot - My Theories on the Popularity of Manga - There Should be Commercials Thanking Loyal Customers - I Parted Ways with Osamu Tezuka When I Saw the 'Hand of God' in Him - A Proposal to Acquire Film Rights [to Richard Corben's ROWLF]

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2025

    “The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews Parthenope, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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  • Kenagle @kenagle.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    New here. Still learning the ropes, but here is a great suggestion for an 80's (1987) film. Directed by Beth B (dir. video Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight) and a soundtrack by some band called New Order. Touched by the Hand of God plays over the end credits.

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  • Off The Chart @offthechart.showBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    New at 25, "Touched By The Hand Of God" was recorded for the movie "Salvation!", a parody of US televangelists. The video for the single was directed by US film director Kathryn Bigelow and features New Order performing as a parody glam metal band. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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  • Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2025

    There's also Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand of God, a family drama set in Napoli in that period, which is half a truly wonderful movie, half a mess, (with the two halves arranged consecutively).

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  • The Electricity Club @electricity-club.co.ukBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    'Touched By The Hand Of God' by New Order was released this day in December 1987. The song was originally recorded for the soundtrack to the film 'Salvation!' and the version released as a single was remixed by Arthur Baker. The single placed No. 20 in the UK singles chart.

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  • Simon @hungryhatter.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    New Order's Touched By The Hand Of God is apparently from a film called Salvation!, but all I've ever seen of it is a handful of clips they used in the video.

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  • Brian A. Bradshaw @brianabradshaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Can we not go into important matches without them seemingly being turned into a trailer for a blockbuster movie? "Eleven men, one goal: rewrite the story written by the Hand of God!" What a load of crap. Seriously.

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  • Long John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2026

    There’s a character I think about often from Sorrentino’s 2021 film The Hand of God. He’s The protagonist’s communist Catholic uncle, who says shit like Maradona was sent by God himself to humiliate the imperialist British bastards. Think it’s an arc for me in later life

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2025

    3. Parthenope “The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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  • Niko Suvisto @nikosuvisto.comBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    I have never seen this or his other films. But I would love to! My friends praised The Hand Of God. One of them is from Naples, so they told a bit about that film, and his films in general. I hope you can manage it ✌🏻

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  • Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    New Order's "Touched by the Hand of God" for the movie Salvation! was easily the most hilarious.

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  • The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    I also wrote a chapter on what I call Netflix's monumentally local European films, including The Hand of God, All Quiet on the Western Front and Society of the Snow. My argument is that these have to be understood as part of Nflix's fight against regulation. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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  • Secret Movie Club @secretmovieclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    MOVIE QUESTION: We love world cinema AND the World Cup. Yet why are there so few great movies about soccer/football? What are your favorites? We nominate Paolo Sorrentino's recent THE HAND OF GOD (2021) and Gary Oldman's performance stunner THE FIRM (1989) as two great ones.

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  • Peter B. @pcbogert.eurosky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    The Gaslight Issue: over Gaslight, Rogue Trooper en The Hand of God. AMP van de week: The 39 Steps. #film #cinema

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    😝 I passed out after 15 mins, but that was no judgement on the film, which was already above The Great Beauty and The Hand Of God. But I would say to him: either have juxtapositional/associative editing or dolly the camera around a bunch, but don’t do both - it looks messy.

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  • Greg Ravengrave @gregravengrave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    When I get my GST + Quebec solidarity tax I feel like I’ve been touched by the Hand of God a la the 1996 film ‘Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny’.

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  • BOOKSNS @booksns.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    help a movie junkie https://www.booksns.com/180883/ i have a wide range of genres but if you have a book in mind with some correlation with any of these movies, i'd love a recommendation: Boyhood, Red Rocket, Princess Mononoke, Ghostdog, The Hunt, Perfect Days, The Hand Of God, Kill Bill(!!), …

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  • CinemaSerf @Geronimo1967TMDB reviews · Mar 28, 2022

    Told largely from the perspective of the young "Fabietto" (Filippo Scotti), this is a charming tale of this youth who lives with elder brother "Marchino" (Marlon Joubert) and his parents "Saverio" (Toni Servillo) and "Maria" (Teresa Saponangelo). Both teenagers are frequently tempted by their somewhat exhibitionist aunt "Patricia" (Luisa Ranieri) a temptation only matched by their (and the entire city of Naples') desire to see Diego Maradona come and play at Napoli. Director Paolo Sorrentino…

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  • badelf @badelfTMDB reviews · Dec 20, 2021

    Calling this a "coming-of-age" film is like calling Bud Lite a beer. They're not in the same class. I compare this film to my other favorite re-telling of a seminal childhood memory - Joanna Hogg's Souvenir. The great Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, once wrote "For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not till they have turned to blood within us, to glance and gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not till then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first…

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Filippo Scotti
Fabietto Schisa
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Toni Servillo
Saverio Schisa
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Teresa Saponangelo
Maria Schisa
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Luisa Ranieri
Patrizia
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Marlon Joubert
Marchino Schisa
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Massimiliano Gallo
Franco
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Betti Pedrazzi
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Renato Carpentieri
Alfredo

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