FRANCESCA CIMA

LORO (2019)
Starring Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Ricky Memphis, Euridice Axén, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Roberto De Francesco, Dario Cantarelli and Anna Bonaiuto. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.

Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction.

REVIEWS Loro - Flashy and fleshy

YOUTH (2015)
Starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano and Rachel Weisz. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.

Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children’s confused lives, Micks enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.

REVIEWS Youth - Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel's swan song

THE GREAT BEAUTY (2014)
Starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Franco Graziosi, Sonia Gessner and Giorgio Pasotti. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.

65-year-old Jep Gambardella is a jaded journalist and wealthy bon vivant whose early promise as a novelist has never been fulfilled, though his infamy remains. He lives alone in a luxurious apartment overlooking the Colosseum and is a regular of Rome’s party circuit for the elite, a never-ending nocturnal parade of decadence that rages through antique palaces, immense villas and opulent terraces around the Eternal City.

The blinding metropolis Jep strolls through seems to reflect the hollowness and futility of his actions and those of his friends, but his worldview begins to shift after a man arrives on his doorstep and informs him of the death of his first love. Both troubled and moved by the revelation, Jep is flooded with memories of the past and ponders the promise of what may remain....