Loro – Silvio Berlusconi, his beautiful butterflies and the others

Loro - Silvio Berlusconi, his butterflies and the others

Inspired by The Last Prosecco we still are on the Italian wave. It brought us to Silvio Berlusconi and his entourage – presented by Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film “Loro”. Now these are different pairs of shoes. On one hand the refined low-budget production, on the other one – the expensive and opulent Fellini 2.0 version.

Esthetics seem to be the main playground here while substance is on the retreat. Watching Sorrentino’s movie we see a hedonistic abyss of Berlusconi’s power game. We follow the career of Sergio, a small town smarty using girls to get access to “Lui”, to the eccentric prime minister who rewards such favors with golden butterfly necklaces. His clownish face appears as a tattoo in the very beginning of the film, in a sex scene.

Paolo Sorrentino paints lengthy pictures of designer drug infused nihilistic techno parties. There are however some scenes that stay in our memory for longer, e.g. Berlusconi in the butterfly glass house or him practicing his selling skills as a real estate agent. While we did not appreciate the “paper book Fellini” style we highly enjoyed the talent of Toni Servillo playing Berlusconi aged 70, shortly before his political come back.

The film ends surprisingly and we got the impression that the director just needed to finish his picture with a shadow of sense.

As you see this time our review is not enthusiastic but maybe riding our own Italian wave we expected too much. One visitor in our cinema hall fell asleep during “Loro”. Probably loosing one third of this long (150 minutes) film he got a better view.

Summa summarum 5/10

Maria&Paul

MORE INFO

Director – Paolo Sorrentino

Writers – Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello

Music – Lele Marchitelli

Original title – Loro

CAST

Silvio Berlusconi – Toni Servillo

Veronica Lario – Elena Sofia Ricci

Sergio Morra – Riccardo Scamarcio

Kira – Kasia Smutniak

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