Loro

Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award-winning director of The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, who returns to cinema in spectacular fashion with this dazzling, topical and no-holds-barred look at life in Italy under the glistening eye of modern Europe's most infamous politician.

With Loro, Sorrentino gradually unpeels the complex personality and motivations of the billionaire former Prime Minister played with unmistakable panache by Toni Servillo during a tumultuous period in his career, as his marriage to second wife Veronica Lario (Elena Sofia Ricci) fractures; all the while skilfully threading together stories of a wide variety of characters from multiple levels of society and their attempts to either ingratiate or distance themselves from him.

Critic Reviews:

• " Paolo Sorrentino brings us to the question of how egomaniacal we are and how much entertainment we need to spend our short time of life. " – Guillem Martinez Oya

• " If being dull is the cardinal sin of the movies, as Capra supposedly said, then Sorrentino is a saint. " – Hunter Lanier

• " A masterful piece of work no less accomplished because it signifies nothing, Loro is likely to be the most sumptuous look into the abyss you'll ever encounter. " – Jennie Kermode