Sin

Name: Sin
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: February 19, 2021
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Adriano Chiaramida, Alberto Testone, Alessandro Pezzali, Anita Pititto, Antonio Gargiulo

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Corinth Films | Release Date (Streaming): February 19, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Adriano Chiaramida, Alberto Testone, Alessandro Pezzali, Anita Pititto, Antonio Gargiulo, Carlo Capalbo, Francesco Gaudiello, Glen Blackhall, Jakob Diehl, Massimo De Francovich, Mauro Pirovano, Nicola Adobati, Nicola De Paola, Orso Maria Guerrini, Ralph Palka, Salvatore Pulzella, Toni Pandolfo, Yuliya Vysotskaya

Summary: Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed withFlorence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission – the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favor with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations, leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings. [Corinth Films]… Expand

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 134 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 24, 2021

It’s a gritty, lived-in film that feels like a smelly, life-is-nasty-brutish-and-short for anyone not in the ruling classes depiction of the Renaissance — beautiful and painterly even in it’s ugliness. Read full review

Pat Brown

Feb 15, 2021

Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Feb 18, 2021

An austere, demanding sit, Sin — a Russian-Italian coproduction with Italian dialogue — nevertheless has a stubborn integrity in exploring the competing forces of patronage and creative inspiration that Michelangelo confronted in the 16th century. Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

Feb 15, 2021

Dramatically the film can feel a little one-note and overlong. But it stands comparison with Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio as a fascinating portrait of an artist fighting to survive in the cut and thrust of times quite unlike our own. Read full review

Robert Abele

Feb 18, 2021

Neither agonizing nor ecstatic, but solidly cinematic, Andrei Konchalovsky’s Michelangelo biopic Sin sees the veteran Russian filmmaker tackling the mystery of genius with what might be described as sumptuous grit. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Feb 18, 2021

Neither glowing hagiography nor gritty apologia, Sin wallows instead in Michelangelo’s melancholy, his vanity and later his paranoia. Read full review

Steve Davis

Feb 17, 2021

Renaissance man extraordinaire Michelangelo Buonarroti is frequently accused of greed in the incohesive historical drama Sin, but the only real transgression is his pride, whether it’s nurturing his own divine genius or badmouthing the mediocrity of contemporaries like Leonardo and Raphael. Read full review

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