PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
mario_c
Unlike the main title may suggest THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE is not your typical romantic comedy or even romantic drama… no, it's well far beyond that! It's mostly a drama for sure but where love enters in a very dark and unusual way… It tells the story of an unsympathetic and lonely man TITTA DI GIROLAMO (played by Toni Servillo) who lives in a hotel room for about 8 years and has a very solitary and monotonous live. He has some dark secrets as well… Nothing changes his routines until he falls in love for the incredibly beautiful green eyes of SOFIA (Olivia Magnani), the girl who works in the Hotel's bar.The plot is straight to follow but the kind of cinematography used and the way the scenes are mounted turn this movie a bit puzzling at parts. The camera-work is excellent and the way the director shot some angles and details are simply brutal! I'm talking about the scene in the hotel room when the camera passes over DI GIROLAMO's head and then stops shooting his face upside down! Or even the very two last scenes of the movie. These are just two examples of this great directing work! The soundtrack is quite nice as well.This story doesn't end unsolved but I think there're some questions that still without answers at the end, like what happened to the mysterious SOFIA… To sum up, it's a good film with a great performance from Toni Servillo.
Boba_Fett1138
The movie is a really well made one, which is great and looking and passionately directed. You can tell that every shot is thought over and executed to perfection. For the lovers of cinema this is especially a great watch and they especially should be able to appreciate the beauty of it and the passion for cinema that is being put into it.It's hard to place this movie under one label. It's not really a drama, it's not really a thriller and it's not really a comedy. Instead its more a movie with its own style, that does things its own way. It doesn't necessarily follow the rules of cinema and features many different elements from many different genres combined.But just like the movie its main character, the movie gets sort of slow and boring in parts. The artistic style of directing tries to conceal that the story is actually a quite simple one and it's more as if the movie relied solely on its style and overall atmosphere created by the movie. It doesn't make the movie horrible or anything but it just prevents it from being a true absolute must-see. In parts the movie also feels as if it's trying to be too poetic and tries to let the images speak too much for itself. It just feels a bit overdone in parts, though for most part of the movie it still works out beautifully.It features some great camera-work and some unique storytelling, which makes this an original as well as a great film to watch.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Bloxsaw
Stylish, thought provoking, cool and gripping – just four aspects of a film that will long remain in the thoughts of this viewer.Slow-paced it may be at the beginning but the director beguiles with beautiful camera work, sophisticated compositions and elegant editing. The unfolding of the story, not so much the narrative line but the revelation of the characters' inner selves, is masterful.Olivia Magnani, who plays Sophia, the hotel receptionist, who finally breaks down the icy reserve of former consiglierie Titta di Girolami (Tony Servillo) is coolly beautiful and reveals hidden depths and personal honesty in her brief but profound relationship with Girolami.The disgraced Mafia middle-man, forced to live out an empty life, tormented by insomnia, in a Swiss hotel, becomes caught up in the similarly empty lives of the refined older couple who formerly owned the hotel but are now forced to live there as residents after the husband gambled away their resources years earlier. The husband is constantly dreaming about recovering his lost wealth and making a grand statement to the world. His wife realises this is but a pipe dream. This nicely counterpoints the resignation of Girolami who sees no way out and does not seek one.The fleeting love affair between Girolami and Sophia has consequences that no one could have foreseen. It enables him to escape his prison without bars but to pay a huge price that he willingly accepts and in doing so provides redemption for the older couple.
Framescourer
A stylish, touching Italian film. Toni Servillo's ascetic, crisply presented hotel-hermit Girolamo barely speaks and looks thoroughly bored. Not promising. However, we are engaged with a double hit of Girolamo's mysteriousness and the peripheral characters that he can't avoid in and around the hotel. Not least of these is the barmaid, the dark and irresistibly fragrant Olivia Magnani. She reaches out to him - the rest of the film are the consequences of his piqued humanity.I liked the editing, the use of a broad and varied soundtrack and a fresh, non-judgemental attitude to some familiar set pieces - murder, drug use, lust. There's no specifically existential narrative. It's equally cool and noble but no issue is made of any of these facets. Rather it's a straightforwardly told story in which all these themes are interdependent on one another. 6/10
