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Loro

Loro

Movie · 2018 · 14 people

Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon and politician, and the businessmen and politicians around him are at the centre of Loro (Italian for "them"), a 2018 Italian-French drama that Paolo Sorrentino directed and wrote with Umberto Contarello. It is Sorrentino's second look at political culture after Il divo, and it jabs at both Berlusconi's private life and his politics. It reached Turkish cinemas on 29 March 2019 through Başka Sinema.

The action is set between 2006 and 2009. Toni Servillo plays Berlusconi, Elena Sofia Ricci his wife Veronica Lario, and Riccardo Scamarcio Sergio Morra, who tries to get close to Berlusconi. Kasia Smutniak appears as Kira and Iaia Forte is also in the cast. The title also puns on l'oro, "the gold", pointing to a glittering but corrupt world.

Indigo Film produced it, with the French company Pathé as co-producer. Medusa Film, Sorrentino's usual Italian co-financier, stayed out because Berlusconi controls it. Filming took place in Rome and several locations in Tuscany. In Italy the film came out in two parts, Loro 1 on 24 April 2018 and Loro 2 on 10 May 2018. The international version was cut to 145 minutes so it could be submitted for the 91st Academy Awards.

DirectorPaolo Sorrentino
Production companyIndigo Film

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Kasia Smutniak Kasia Smutniak Actor · 47 years old Iaia Forte Iaia Forte Actor · 64 years old Toni Servillo Elena Sofia Ricci Riccardo Scamarcio Roberto De Francesco Fabrizio Bentivoglio Euridice Axen Anna Bonaiuto Giovanni Esposito Yann Gael Caroline Tillette Michela Cescon Roberto Herlitzka

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Returning to political culture after Il divo, Sorrentino pushes his style even further. He builds a glittering, excessive and deliberately showy world, and the title's pun on l'oro, the gold, sums up that aesthetic. The problem is that the film was conceived in two parts: cutting the international version to 145 minutes seems to have upset the balance of the structure, and the narrative feels scattered in places. Toni Servillo's Berlusconi is the film's centre of gravity and the element that holds the scattered structure together. For admirers of the style it is a rich feast, but there are quite a few moments where the glitter overshadows the critique.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Loro portrays the world of business and politics around Berlusconi between 2006 and 2009, and it does so as satire rather than documentary. It shows an order in which media power and political power are intertwined, through the figures trying to get close to it. One telling detail is that the production itself mirrors that order: Medusa Film, Sorrentino's usual Italian co-financier, stayed out because Berlusconi controls it. It makes you consider how a country's politics can be tangled up with who owns even its film companies. Because it is based on real people, what it shows should be read as satire.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

This is not a film for family night. Its subject is the adult world: a needling story about politics, money and a politician's private life. For children it is both heavy and very long. Even teenagers will probably get bored. Adults who enjoy political drama should watch it on their own.

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