

A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece.
Direction
Schnabel paints with film like Dante painted with verse—messy, maximalist, alive.
Acting
Isaac's dual performance: gutter poet meets medieval scribe, same haunted eyes.
Cinematography
Benoît Delhomme makes modern New York and 14th-century Italy equally tactile.

Director
Julian Schnabel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Nick Tosches wrote the novel before his 2019 death; Schnabel finished this as a decades-long passion project.
Schnabel cast Gadot against blockbuster type specifically because he wanted 'someone whose beauty feels like a burden.'
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