CINEMA Outstanding life of the original Renaissance Man
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, that incomparable Renaissance Man, is masterfully brought back to life by Russian film maestro Andrei Konchalovsky in Sin (Il Peccato), which he co-wrote and directed. In it, Alberto Testone incarnates Michelangelo in early-16th century Renaissance Italy in Rome, Florence and the quarry where the sculptor connives to snag the world’s largest slab of marble known to man. Will “the monster,” as this gigantic chunk of snow-white rock is called because of its sheer immensity, be for his Sistine Chapel patron Pope Julius II’s (Massimo De Francovich) tomb or will it...