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Loro

Paolo Sorrentino  •   France/Italy  • ​  2018
151 mins  •  HD  •   R16 sex scenes, nudity, drug use & offensive language
​In Italian with English subtitles
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Tony Servillo inhabits former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi in this fantastical vision of the controversial tycoon and politician and his inner circle.

“There’s not a dull moment in Loro… all of it is visceral pleasure at an eye-bleeding volume” – Film Threat
DIRECTOR: Paolo Sorrentino
PRODUCERS: Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano
PRODUCTION CO: Indigo Film

SCREENPLAY: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
PHOTOGRAPHY: Luca Bigazzi
EDITOR: Cristiano Travaglioli
MUSIC: Lele Marchitelli
WITH: Toni Servillo (Silvio Berlusconi / Ennio Doris), Elena Sofia Ricci (Veronica Lario), Riccardo Scamarcio (Sergio), Kasia Smutniak (Kira), Euridice Axen (Tamara), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Santino Recchia)

FESTIVALS: Busan, Cologne, Tokyo


REVIEW

“A compelling mixture of the whimsical and the sleazy, the hedonistic and the sad. The Trumpian parallels are also impossible to ignore.”

– Ian Freer, Empire

“Queasy and compelling in equal measure, Paolo Sorrentino’s sprawling portrait of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi – played with oily charisma by the director’s regular leading man, Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) – is presented in its feature-length international version.

"It’s 2006. Berlusconi’s third government has fallen, and his marriage is also about to collapse. Before meeting the man himself, we’re introduced to Sergio (a magnetic and suave Riccardo Scamarcio) and his unscrupulous partner Tamara. From southern Italy, the pair want to become part of Berlusconi’s closest circle in Rome, and they are ready to do whatever it takes. Enter Kira, a high-class hooker who encourages Sergio to rent a villa in Sardinia overlooking the former PM’s and fill it with scantily clad models fuelled by mountains of drugs and alcohol. It doesn’t take long before Berlusconi notices.

Until now his name has barely been spoken, and even his face has not yet been revealed. When he does at last appear, Berlusconi is in full makeup, dressed as an odalisque attempting to impress his bored wife. Always in performance mode, he acts the crooner, an emperor bestowing gifts on prostitutes and politicians alike, and, in one of the film’s best scenes, a salesman trying to close the deal on a non-existent apartment with a housewife fooled by his magic.

The chameleonic Servillo is perfect as the orange, plastic surgery-addicted Berlusconi, his voice and mannerisms extraordinarily matching those of the Italian politician. It’s impossible to take your eyes off that smiling, creepy face.”

– Sibilla Paparatti, NZIFF 2019

“The camera glides through bacchanals, making each viewer a voyeur of sorts. The colours are lush; the production design is breathtaking. Italy has rarely looked so stunning and soulless. Loro satirizes affluence by bathing in it. It may be impossible to leave a Sorrentino jaunt not feeling a little bit mischievous.”

​– Sam Fragoso, The Wrap


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