LE CONSEQUENZE DELL’AMORE (The consequences of love) directed by Paolo Sorrentino (2004).
Titta Di Girolamo (Toni Servillo) is a man with a secret. A solitary, taciturn, poker-faced man – rich but sad. A chain smoker and who takes heroine once a week but who gets no pleasure from either habit. He watches an attractive woman who works in the hotel where he lives. He’s like a character from Kafka. His secret is one he dares not confess but the woman is his downfall and the consequences are inevitable.
Sorrentino creates a chilly mood of mystery and suspense with a kind of slow motion thriller. Servillo’s performance is a master class in understatement. To gain something you must sometime be prepared be lose everything.
