If you are looking for a political analysis or critical biography of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Paolo Sorrentino is not your guy.
Also read: La Grande Bellezza
The director of Il divo, La grande bellezza, and The Young Pope is relatively mild in his portrait of the caddish magnate, performed with brio by his fetish actor Toni Servillo.
Sorrentino lets himself go stylistically with the bunga bunga parties, with mountains of cocaine, dreadful music, and dozens of young ladies.
Nobody can film vulgarity so invitingly and so repulsively as he can.
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