Loro

    Loro
    2018

    Synopsis

    Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.

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      Cast

      • Toni ServilloSilvio Berlusconi / Ennio Doris
      • Elena Sofia RicciVeronica Lario
      • Riccardo ScamarcioSergio Morra
      • Kasia SmutniakKira
      • Euridice AxénTamara
      • Fabrizio BentivoglioSantino Recchia
      • Roberto De FrancescoFabrizio Sala
      • Dario CantarelliPaolo Spagnolo
      • Anna BonaiutoCupa Caiafa
      • Giovanni EspositoMariano Apicella

      Recommendations

      • 80

        New York Magazine (Vulture)

        Loro itself becomes somewhat Berlusconian, though associating that pseudo-fascist slimeball with anything this visually resplendent should be some sort of crime.
      • 75

        The A.V. Club

        Servillo—who previously embodied another former Italian prime minister, Giulio Andreotti, in Sorrentino’s Il Divo—never fails to deliver a memorably offbeat take on an outsize figure. Loro loses a bit of momentum once Berlusconi finally becomes its central figure, but it also gains some much-needed complexity.
      • 75

        RogerEbert.com

        Loro feels like the work of a more mature artist. Sorrentino knows exactly who his Berlusconi is, and, with the help of Servillo — who delivers a characteristically impressive performance — manages to make the former Prime Minister’s total lack of introspection seem ironically revealing. Ecco Silvio: pathetic, alone, indestructible.
      • 60

        The Observer (UK)

        There’s a sloppiness and incoherence in the storytelling.
      • 60

        The Guardian

        It’s a flawed, undigested film that, like Sorrentino’s movie Youth, is knowingly indulgent of old men’s foibles. But there is one great scene in which Berlusconi, just to prove he’s still got it, cold-calls a woman out of the blue posing as a realtor and tries to sell her an apartment off-plan.
      • 60

        The Telegraph

        Since Servillo is too great an actor to settle for caricature, he undercuts his monstrous role with pangs of sympathy: the carousing has a late-life wistfulness, the breakdown of his marriage to his apparently still-beloved Veronica (Elena Sofia Ricci) rings with genuine regret.
      • 58

        The Film Stage

        Loro has a ton of style and effective performances across the board.
      • 50

        Slant Magazine

        Like most of Paolo Sorrentino’s films, Loro is closer to a stylistic orgy than an existential rumination on Italy’s heritage.