Venice Film Festival, review of the movie In the hand of Dante

 In the Hand of Dante: An Adventurous Journey Through Parallel Lives

"In the Hand of Dante" chronicles the quest for the original manuscript of the Divine Comedy, alternating between passionate and poetic scenes reminiscent of 1960s cinema and gangster sequences. A love story that transcends time, from the medieval era to the contemporary age. A centrifuge of styles and genres. It seems challenging to fit everything into a single film, yet the ensemble is placed on screen with visually captivating, evocative images.

A New York writer becomes so immersed in the search for the manuscript that he transforms into Dante's reincarnation, in a sort of parallel lives scenario, but this time he will throw Beatrice off the pier and recognize the true love of Gemma.

Chaotic yet evocative, it speaks of love but also functions as a 1970s crime film, telling Dante's story while reimagining it. When Nick becomes involved to authenticate an ancient manuscript that could be the original copy of the Divine Comedy, he never imagined he would pursue true love—passionate and poetic—in an eccentric, at times hilarious, visually suggestive, occasionally tedious, timeless adventure.

The cast, featuring Gal Gadot, Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, and Jason Momoa, lends depth to the narrative.