Loro

Loro (2018) is a Paolo Sorrentino drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Toni Servillo as Silvio Berlusconi. The film was originally released in two parts in Italy; the international cut runs 156 minutes as a single director's version. Italy/France co-production.

The title translates as "them" — the businessmen, politicians, and hangers-on who orbit Berlusconi between 2006 and 2009, jostling for proximity to someone who has more money and reach than anyone in the room. Berlusconi himself arrives late in the film; for a while, he's only the gravity other characters feel. Toni Servillo plays him as a charmer who genuinely enjoys being watched, while Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Veronica carries the film's other register entirely — quieter, more corrosive.

Sorrentino shoots with the same baroque extravagance he brought to The Great Beauty: Sardinian villas, swimming pools at 3 a.m., a camera that keeps finding the absurdity inside the opulence. It is not a polemic, but it is not flattering either. Stream Loro (2018) online on iFILM.