'An ice-cool existential drama… the first discovery of this year’s competition at Cannes' 'The film is distinguished by a dazzling lead performance from Toni Servillo...' Jonathan Romney - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL (Cannes 2004) 'Sorrentino takes an original, reflective and teasingly oblique path to one of the most frequently explored dramatic subjects in Italian film in his stylish second feature… coldly clever…bracingly mesmerizing...' David Rooney - VARIETY (Cannes 2004) 'Perhaps the most stylish of the competition films so far is Paolo Sorrentino’s THE CON- SEQUENCES OF LOVE: Toni Servillo is superb...' Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN 'The competition film that most impressed me…an unsettling and glacially cool existential number' Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (Cannes Press) 'a thrilling drama with several seriously unexpected twists' James Christopher, THE TIMES (LFF 2004 Review) 'Paolo Sorrentino’s feature is dizzyingly strange... its grace and mischief will surprise you.' Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT 'A burgeoning master-stylist with the eye of a Kubrick' Kevin Maher, UNCUT