La Grazia

La Grazia (2025) is an Italian political drama by Paolo Sorrentino — watch it online on iFILM. Toni Servillo plays Mariano De Santis, a cautious centrist president days from retirement. His daughter Dorotea, a lawyer and his closest aide, places three impossible cases on his desk before he can leave quietly.

Two clemency requests. One from an elderly man who suffocated his wife after two decades of her living with Alzheimer's — an act of mercy or a crime? The other from a young woman who stabbed her abusive husband to survive. Neither file has a clean answer. On top of that, Dorotea is pushing an euthanasia bill — already politically toxic given the Vatican sits a short walk away.

Sorrentino, director of The Great Beauty and Youth, is back on familiar territory: Rome as backdrop and moral witness, long silences before the decisive line, a man who holds enormous power and can do nothing with it against grief. Anna Ferzetti is sharp and unsentimental as Dorotea, matching Servillo scene for scene. Stream La Grazia (2025) in full online on iFILM.