The Consequences of Love

by Paolo Sorrentino

A refined and mysterious businessman and a hotel chambermaid : a love story, full of mysteries and secrets, which will not be lived to the end but will spur a sequence of facts changing the destiny of the protagonists.

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DATA SHEET

Orginal title:

Le conseguenze dell’amore

Year:

2004

Length (min.):

100'

Original language:

Italiano

International Title:

The Consequences of Love

Production:

Indigo Film

Co-Producers:

Fandago

Worlds sales:

The Works Ltd

Distributors:

Morandini Film Distribution (CH), MEDUSA distribuzione (IT), Artificial Eye (UK), OCEAN FILMS DISTRIBUTION (FR)

With the support of:

MEDUSA Film

Facts & Figures:

Prima mondiale: Festival di Cannes 13 Maggio 2004

Prizes
(selection):

David di Donatello 2005 - Miglior film, Migliore regia, Migliore sceneggiatura, Migliore attore protagonista, Migliore autore della fotografia
Nastri d’Argento - Miglior soggetto, Miglior fotografia, Miglior attore protagonista e non protagonista
Ciak d’Oro - Miglior film, Miglior regia, Miglior montaggio, Miglior suono in presa diretta, Miglior manifesto
Globi d’Oro - Miglior sceneggiatura, Attrice rivelazione, Gran Premio speciale della Stampa Estera

Festivals
(selection):

Locarno Film Festival 2009
Festival di Cannes 2004

Official website:

Link

CONTACT

Indigo Film
https://www.indigofilm.it

SYNOPSIS

Everyone has an unmentionable secret. But Titta Di Girolamo has more than one. It’s obvious. Otherwise why would a fifty-year-old man, from the south, want to live for eight years in an anonymous hotel room in an anonymous town in the Italian part of Switzerland? Eight years without working. Apparently. Years of silence and cigarettes, years perched in the lobby or the hotel bar, elegantly dressed, but never allowing himself any luxuries. An atrocious routine, eternally waiting for something daring to happen. What on earth will happen?

Titta observes, impassively peers at the life that goes by in front of him, revealing no sentiment, no emotion. Apparently. He no longer has anyone. Alone. A lost man. Lost for years in contemplation of something hidden. What is it? And why? What, then, are Titta Di Girolamo’s unmentionable secrets?

LOCATION

Bellinzona, Biasca and surroundings

Locarno, Ascona and surroundings

Lugano and surroundings

Mendrisio, Chiasso and surroundings

COLLECTIONS

Cinémathèque suisse

Locarno Film Festival

CAST & CREW

Direction:

Paolo Sorrentino

Film script:

Paolo Sorrentino

Cast:

Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Raffaele Pisu, Angela Goodwin, Diego Ribon, Giselda Volodi, Nino D'agata

Director of photography:

Luca Bigazzi

Scenography:

Lino Fiorito

Costumes:

Ortensia De Francesco

Sound:

Daghi Rondanini, Emanuele Cecere

Editing:

Giogiò Franchini

Sound editing:

Silvia Moraes

Music:

Pasquale Catalano

Producers:

Francesca Cima, Angelo Curti, Nicola Giuliano, Domenico Procacci

HIGHLIGHTS

Paolo Sorrentino's second feature film, presented at Cannes in 2004, portrays the life of Titta di Girolamo, a former accountant from Salerno exiled to Lugano by Cosa Nostra. Shot between Lugano and Chiasso, the film should certainly have been a Swiss co-production, as Sorrentino's Youth would later be, shot in Davos. The Italian producers had obviously contacted producers in Ticino to work together... But despite various attempts by local production companies, it seems that it was impossible to obtain public or television financing for this film. Probably the idea that the Mafia regularly deposits money in Swiss banks didn't appeal too much. Too bad: the film is wonderful; awarded at Cannes and around the world, and confirmed director Sorrentino's great talent.

Frédéric Maire, Director Cinémathèque Suisse

The Consequences of Love

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