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THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE is an ice
cool, gripping, psychological thriller which
screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last year. It features a brilliant
central appearance from Toni Servillo and
is an impressive second feature from
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino.
Everyone harbours a dark secret. But it’s
obvious that Titta Di Girolamo (Toni Ser-
villo) has more than one. Why else would
a 50-year-old man from southern Italy
choose to live for eight years in an anon-
ymous hotel room in an anonymous town |
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in Switzerland?
He seems to be a man without identity and with little to do, spending his time smoking and coldly
observing the hotel's denizens, mostly the beautiful barmaid Sofia. A nullifying routine, he’s con-
stantly waiting for something daring to happen, but what is Titta’s dark secret? And what is the
story of the mysterious suitcases delivered to his door?
He once lost money owned by the mafia on the stock market and has been punished in a grue-
some way: he is to deliver the mafia’s money to the bank once a week and has no life for him-
self. Elegantly dressed he sits each day in the lobby of the hotel, smoking cigarettes with impec-
cable poise. He observes the hotel guests and especially the bartender, Sofia, (Olivia Magnani,
granddaughter of Italy’s famous actress Anna Magnani), but never acknowledges her attempts
to be friendly. At night, he plays cards with the former hotel owners who lost the hotel to gam-
bling, before he gets ready for another night without sleep. His detachment from the world is
complete, until he does begin to communicate with Sofia - at this point his neatly organised world
turns upside down.
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