Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
By: Tony Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Raffaele Pisu, Adriano Giannini, Angela Goodwin
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Production: Domenico Procacci, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Angelo Curti.
Distribution: Medusa.
Length: 100 '.
Year: 2004.
The usual hotel room, after dinner bent over a poker table rigged and sad, a dose of heroin taken invariable habit for the Wednesday morning each week and a suitcase to slide in the belly greedy for a good bank Switzerland. The life of Titta Di Girolamo, dreary middle-aged accountant chissaccome finished cleaning up money to Cosa Nostra, runs like a normal saline drip: Drip, regular, without emotions or tremors. Between a cigarette and another, behind the windows of the great hall and pulitssima, Titta observes the movement of a world that always feels less interest. Indifference is the business card exemption to anyone who dares to cross the border of that intangible mutual ignorance that sociologists define good performance with "civil inattention." However, even if the future seems already written and scored, something in the life of Titta has yet to happen thanks to the obstinacy of a young white waitress. But unfortunately the consequences of love will not be negligible.
By: Tony Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Raffaele Pisu, Adriano Giannini, Angela Goodwin
.
Production: Domenico Procacci, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Angelo Curti.
Distribution: Medusa.
Length: 100 '.
Year: 2004.
The usual hotel room, after dinner bent over a poker table rigged and sad, a dose of heroin taken invariable habit for the Wednesday morning each week and a suitcase to slide in the belly greedy for a good bank Switzerland. The life of Titta Di Girolamo, dreary middle-aged accountant chissaccome finished cleaning up money to Cosa Nostra, runs like a normal saline drip: Drip, regular, without emotions or tremors. Between a cigarette and another, behind the windows of the great hall and pulitssima, Titta observes the movement of a world that always feels less interest. Indifference is the business card exemption to anyone who dares to cross the border of that intangible mutual ignorance that sociologists define good performance with "civil inattention." However, even if the future seems already written and scored, something in the life of Titta has yet to happen thanks to the obstinacy of a young white waitress. But unfortunately the consequences of love will not be negligible.
After the promising debut de Man Up (2001), by Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of confirmation have excellent story-telling skills combined with a strong propensity for the film medium. Born and raised as a writer, the Neapolitan director builds the written page the best conditions for the next job of staging that at this point could also be limited to a mere exercise leaflet. The narrative architecture of The Consequences of Love indeed it contains a refined
clockwork device perfectly calibrated, calibrated in the use of ellipses, references, revelations and reversals of perspective, the time unconscious of the curiosity of the viewer. Rarely a script that technical merit is not accompanied by directions and interpretations of the same tenor. The rule, unwritten and unprovable, implies that only a virtuous circle
hand demiurgic writer is capable of triggering: a great script stimulates memorable performances, and sometimes unique (news of Brian Singer of The Usual Suspects?), both in front and behind the camera. Under the watchful eye fluid and more mobile Sorrentino, Tony Servillo describes the essential traits measured and the dark isolation of an "anchor man", then suddenly sucked into the vortex of the same emotions he had deliberately abdicated. Eminently theatrical training, Servillo moved into long silences Titta an explosive mixture of instinct and method that is reminiscent of the violent and fragile of the great Gian Maria Volonte. And 'the stage, with its corollary of evidence, direct comparison with the public, long, uninterrupted performance, the actor put in the suitcase the deep understanding of the character for which you could be an entirely credible Cyrano even without the inevitable fake nose. Titta is a man who has renounced the words, and with them for life, and his gaze has an invulnerable shield. The ability to Servillo is to die little by little the mask he has patiently modeled using the same hesitations, contractions and tremors rather than actual deeds. After the ice carved his David-sorry, Servillo then the power to dissolve slowly over the fire of renewed excitement, lifting it for a moment from the torment of perpetual immobility which Titta, even in death, seems doomed by Fate. Among the many merits Sorrentino also notes the effective use of voice-off and fascinating. Among the few who metabolized the lesson truffautiana, Sorrentino has given thought to the words and amplified Titta considerations amply justify the interruption of the natural flow of the narrative. Admittedly, taken by the enthusiasm of the talent scouts are probably exaggerating, but man is more that we held the scream in her throat. Why Sorrentino's difficult to describe that quality which, to be celebrated sport in his film debut, is about a player who sees the door. " It 'something that is not taught, a sixth sense: a seed that falls only a few fields. And in even less sprouts .*
clockwork device perfectly calibrated, calibrated in the use of ellipses, references, revelations and reversals of perspective, the time unconscious of the curiosity of the viewer. Rarely a script that technical merit is not accompanied by directions and interpretations of the same tenor. The rule, unwritten and unprovable, implies that only a virtuous circle
hand demiurgic writer is capable of triggering: a great script stimulates memorable performances, and sometimes unique (news of Brian Singer of The Usual Suspects?), both in front and behind the camera. Under the watchful eye fluid and more mobile Sorrentino, Tony Servillo describes the essential traits measured and the dark isolation of an "anchor man", then suddenly sucked into the vortex of the same emotions he had deliberately abdicated. Eminently theatrical training, Servillo moved into long silences Titta an explosive mixture of instinct and method that is reminiscent of the violent and fragile of the great Gian Maria Volonte. And 'the stage, with its corollary of evidence, direct comparison with the public, long, uninterrupted performance, the actor put in the suitcase the deep understanding of the character for which you could be an entirely credible Cyrano even without the inevitable fake nose. Titta is a man who has renounced the words, and with them for life, and his gaze has an invulnerable shield. The ability to Servillo is to die little by little the mask he has patiently modeled using the same hesitations, contractions and tremors rather than actual deeds. After the ice carved his David-sorry, Servillo then the power to dissolve slowly over the fire of renewed excitement, lifting it for a moment from the torment of perpetual immobility which Titta, even in death, seems doomed by Fate. Among the many merits Sorrentino also notes the effective use of voice-off and fascinating. Among the few who metabolized the lesson truffautiana, Sorrentino has given thought to the words and amplified Titta considerations amply justify the interruption of the natural flow of the narrative. Admittedly, taken by the enthusiasm of the talent scouts are probably exaggerating, but man is more that we held the scream in her throat. Why Sorrentino's difficult to describe that quality which, to be celebrated sport in his film debut, is about a player who sees the door. " It 'something that is not taught, a sixth sense: a seed that falls only a few fields. And in even less sprouts .*
* Review by Alessandro Montanari