Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
Paolo Sorrentino's portrait of Berlusconi is visually sumptuous and features a towering performance by Toni Servillo, but the film suffers from an uneven narrative structure — a byproduct of the two-film edit — that leaves character arcs feeling incomplete and the ending deflated. Sorrentino's baroque visual style is at its most indulgent here, with stunning compositions and a hedonistic aesthetic that evokes La Grande Bellezza but feels slightly derivative of his own prior work. The film is more a mosaic of excess than a coherent political portrait, which limits its dramatic payoff despite the sheer spectacle on display.