Oscar Isaac in In The Hand of Dante: trailer

The new mystical and mafia delirium by Julian Schnabel will also bring together Al Pacino, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa. Watch next month on Netflix.

Netflix has just released the first trailer for In The Hand of Dantea huge, arty and completely crazy project led by Oscar Isaac and directed by Julian Schnabel.

Presented last year at the Venice Film Festival, the film will be released on Netflix on June 24 in France.

An improbable collision between mafia thriller, existential drama and mystical trip through the centuries. The film follows two parallel stories. “In the Hand of Dante follows the parallel lives of Nick Tosches, a 21st-century New Yorker author, and Dante Alighieri, a 14th-century Italian writer. Recruited by a mafia godfather, Nick embarks on a violent journey to steal Dante’s Divine Comedy, written by the poet himself, even as the latter seeks inspiration to write his great work. Without knowing it, the two men are linked through the centuries by their obsessive quest for love, beauty and the divine.” details the official synopsis.

On the one hand, in contemporary New York, a writer is drawn into a spiral of violence after being recruited by a mafioso to authenticate an original manuscript of The Divine Comedy of Dante, stolen from the Vatican. On the other hand, in the 14th century, Dante Alighieri himself sought inspiration to write his monumental work.

Two trajectories that respond over time around the same obsession: love, beauty and the divine.

Oscar Isaac plays the two main roles: that of the writer Nick Tosches and that of Dante. The trailer reveals a very marked visual structure, alternating black and white and color sequences to differentiate the two eras. Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino, Franco Nero, Sabrina Impacciatore and Benjamin Clementine gravitate around them.

But the real surprise remains the presence of Martin Scorsese in front of the camera. The director of Killers of the Flower Moon here plays Dante’s mentor in what constitutes his first real major acting role in a very long time.

The film is directed by Julian Schnabel, acclaimed filmmaker behind The Diving Bell and the Butterflywho also co-wrote the screenplay with Louise Kugelberg. The project adapts the cult novel by Nick Tosches published in 2002. Scorsese and Oscar Isaac also participate in the executive production.