Hermione Eyre

‘I am not able to answer your question’: an irascible Paolo Sorrentino interviewed

The director's new coming-of-age movie The Hand of God is a classic – but you don't get to be an auteur by being accommodating

Filippo Scotti, far right, as Fabietto Schisa, a lightly fictionalised portrait of the director Paolo Sorrentino in his classic new coming-of-age movie The Hand of God. Credit: Gianni Fiorito
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