Step Inside the Brilliant, Tormented Mind of Renaissance Legend Michelangelo in SIN

Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission – the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favor with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations, leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings.

Following an acclaimed festival run, SIN was released to theaters in 2021, where it garnered critical acclaim. Randy Myers of The Mercury News gave the film three stars and said, "Biopics often paint pretty pictures of their subjects. Not so with Andrei Konchalovsky’s gritty plunge into the life of famed artist Michelangelo…there are enough indelible images to make this worthwhile”, Pat Brown of Slant Magazine writes “Sin gives vibrant expression to the paradox of Michelangelo’s art” and Armond White of The National Review writes that SIN is “the best drama of its kind since Peter Greenaway’s  Eisenstein in Guanajuato .”