Mubi has set a Dec. 5 U.S. and Canada theatrical release for Paolo Sorrentino ‘s La Grazia . The news comes in the wake of the pic receiving a 6 1/2 minute standing ovation on the first night of the Venice Film Festival.

In the movie, Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic. No connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author’s imagination. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled, in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of resp

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