Loro
There are few public figures as ripe for a biopic as Silvio Berlusconi, and few filmmakers better equipped to take that particular portrait on as Paolo Sorrentino in LORO. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival.
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The Great Beauty
Sorrentino’s corrupt, shameless Rome establishes a chokehold of gratuitous hedonism which it refuses to release for the film’s duration.
Dormant Beauty (Bella addormentata)
Marco Bellocchio’s approach to the subject of assisted dying demonstrates why he is still probably the most important filmmaker in Italy today, writes Noel Megahey.
It Was The Son
IT WAS THE SON becomes distractingly frenetic, disoriented by its own irritatingly mismatched tonal shifts that build towards an unsatisfying experience, writes Ed Frost at London Film Festival.