Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is readying the world premiere of his latest film, “La Grazia,” which will compete for the Golden Lion at this month’s Venice Film Festival .
But as for future plans, the Italian auteur was non-committal during a masterclass Sunday at the Sarajevo Film Festival — although he braced the audience to expect the worst.
“I don’t like to have objectives. I don’t love the idea that I have to do new things,” the director said. “I stay at home without doing anything, and then suddenly something comes up in my mind that becomes an obsession, and I say, ‘OK, let’s do a movie about this obsession.’”
About where those obsessions might lead next, Sorrentino stayed mum. But his advice to moviegoers was simple: Don’t get your ho