The Hand of God (2022 Italy)

We haven't had an Italian film for a while and this one will fill the bill. The Hand of God takes out of post-election mode and into the world of a boy growing in Naples in the 1980s. As is universal among teenage boys, his world is full of unexpected joys (such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradonna), loves and losses and unexpected tragedies.

The film is the personal story of director Paolo Sorrentino on his boyhood. The Daily Telegraph reviewer picked up the vibrancy of the "boyishness" in this film; "Throughout, Sorrentino and his cast make these teenage recollections twinge with freshness. Like our own sharpest memories of adolescence, the haze of nostalgia doesn't dull their edge."

The Wall St Journal reviewer said: "The Hand of God creates a reality that is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and remarkable for its buoyancy and grace. It's a film from the hand of a master."

It is time we had a film that celebrates boys being boys.