Men of Mystery.(The Limits of Control)(Il Divo)(Movie review)

What kind of man reads a mystery story but rips out the page on which the villain is about to be unmasked? Who, in other words, prefers eternal suspense to the vulgar eclat of resolution? The answer, according to "Il Divo," is Giulio Andreotti: seven times Prime Minister of Italy, bedrock of the Christian Democrats, and still a senator, at the age of ninety. As incarnated here, right down to the strangely folded tips of his ears, by Toni Servillo, he seems omnipresent, barely sentient, and quite possibly immortal.

The action slides between decades, but, to start with, we join Andreotti at the forging of his final administration, in 1991, with colleagues arriving ...