This is a beautiful film where the florishes and odd moments get in the way of a solid story.
The president of Italy is serving out his final six months. As he does so he has to decide what to do about a euthanasia bill and whether to sign two pardons for people who killed their spouses.
Paolo Sorrentino returns with a lovely and thoughtful portrai of a man of the law who has to wrestle with friends, family and what he believes in in order to figure out what the right thing to do is. It was a film that played festivals across the globe in the last year to great acclaim.
For the most part I absolutely loved this film. I loved the performance by Toni Servillo as the president who is uncertain what do do. Able to convey humor and heartbreak at the same time it is a performance that you will take into your heart and treasure.
For the most part I truly loved this film. Almost everything is spot on and I loved the mix of humnity and heady discussion of ideas. What I did not like was Sorrentino's periodic awkward flights of fancy or allowinf sequences to over stay their welcome. I broke slightly with the film with the sequence of the ambassadors arrival in the rain, which just became the wrong sort of absurd, a feeling that returned periodically through the film.
Reservations aside this is a wonderful film and worth a look.
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