The Consequences of Love

Long before The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino’s second feature was a hyper-stylized existential drama — a demanding yet deeply rewarding gem. Featuring a dazzling performance by Toni Servillo as a man who seems to have been stripped of every trace of life.

Synopsis

A well-groomed middle-aged man from southern Italy has spent the past eight years living in an anonymous hotel in a nameless Swiss city, with no apparent occupation. Years of silence and countless cigarettes unfold in the hotel lobby, where he sits elegantly dressed yet denies himself any luxury. What are the unspoken secrets he carries?