The Consequences of Love (2004)
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?
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So its good to see that with Youth hes regained the form of his best Italian work ( The Consequences Of Love , The Great Beauty , etc).
From a corrupt Italian prime minister haunting the dark shadows of his palace in Il Divo, to an adrift mob bag-man living in a hotel in The Consequences of Love, to an aging author lost in a limbo of endless parties in The Great Beauty , Sorrentino’s men find themselves trapped in the spaces of his films like alienated, ruminative little specters.
So its good to see that with Youth hes regained the form of his best Italian work ( The Consequences Of Love , The Great Beauty , etc).
The Films of Paolo Sorrentino One Man Up The Consequences of Love The Family Friend Il Divo This Must Be the Place The Great Beauty Youth (December 1/15) The second English-language film from Paolo Sorrentino, Youth details the happenings at a luxurious hotel located at the foot of the Alps - with the storyline mostly following a retired conductor (Michael Caine's Fred) as he goes about his business over the course of a few days.
Less patently, the novel has echoes of The Consequences of Love (04), his curiously revisionist take on the male-friendship-exalting French-style noir or polar, and a morbid fascination with the type of dreary provincial “non-places” featured in The Family Friend (06) and This Must Be the Place (11).
After breaking out on the international scene with "The Consequences of Love" and "Il Divo," and then taking a jaunt into English language filmmaking with 2011's "This Must Be The Place," Sorrentino returns to his native country, for a Fellini-esque tale that isn't so much a story as a set of impressions.
Like Fellini, Sorrentino (" This Must Be the Place ," "The Consequences of Love") has a baroque and immersive style.