In the Hand of Dante (2026)

What earned the score

• Pantheistic Theology Replaces Christian Doctrine

  The film presents a theology where 'everything that breathes is God' and 'God is man,' with an ancient rabbi telling Dante 'God is outside and inside of you. He is you.' Dante later performs a miracle by squeezing a rat and using its blood to mark a cross, calming a storm — framing divine power as intrinsic to humanity rather than transcendent.

• Protagonist Explicitly Condemns Christianity as Evil

  Nick, the modern-day protagonist and narrator, declares that 'the pathology of religion [has] made man the most unnatural and ungodly and self-slaughtering of species' and calls monotheism the 'root of all evil.' He also connects the Vatican to organized crime as one of the 'three beasts of international finance, the Mafia and the Vatican,' making anti-Christian ideology central to his worldview.

• Christian Eschatology Replaced by Reincarnation and Goddess Theology

  The narrative resolves with Nick revealed as Dante reincarnated and Giulietta as Gemma reincarnated, preaching a 'gospel of reincarnation.' A character states 'under every name wisdom is feminine,' the Shroud of Turin is declared a medieval fabrication, confession to a priest is dismissed as unnecessary, and the film ends with a song lyric 'I don't believe in an interventionist God' — systematically replacing Christian afterlife and sacramental theology with pagan and secular alternatives.

Details

A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece.

Starring

Oscar IsaacGal GadotGerard ButlerJohn MalkovichLouis Cancelmi

Director

Julian Schnabel

Writer

Julian SchnabelLouise KugelbergNick Tosches

Genre

DramaCrime

Release Date

Jun 12, 2026

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