The Consequences of Love

"Everyone has a dark secret"

2004 1h 40m IT

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Synopsis

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Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

“Everyone has a dark secret”

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Cast

Toni Servillo
Titta Di Girolamo
Olivia Magnani
Sofia
Adriano Giannini
Valerio
Antonio Ballerio
Bank Manager
Gianna Paola Scaffidi
Giulia
Nino D'Agata
Mafioso #1
Vincenzo Vitagliano
Pippo D'Antò
Diego Ribon
Hotel Manager

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writers: Paolo Sorrentino
Languages: Italian
Countries: Italy

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ERA

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Released 22 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, shot by Luca Bigazzi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Pasquale Catalano. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Giogiò Franchini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Toni Servillo and Olivia Magnani and Adriano Giannini carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Everyone has a dark secret".

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IMDB entry: tt0398883 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Paolo Sorrentino directs. Luca Bigazzi behind the camera. Pasquale Catalano scores. Giogiò Franchini cuts. Produced in Italy. Dialogue in Italian.

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1Released 22 years ago.
2Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, shot by Luca Bigazzi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Pasquale Catalano. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Giogiò Franchini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Toni Servillo and Olivia Magnani and Adriano Giannini carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Everyone has a dark secret".
7IMDB entry: tt0398883 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Luca Bigazzi
Original score: Pasquale Catalano
Editing: Giogiò Franchini
Production design: Lino Fiorito
Makeup / hair: Adriana Lamacchia
Stunt coordinator: Gianluca Petrazzi
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: IT
IMDB: The Consequences of Love (2004)

Awards

David di Donatello for Best Director
David di Donatello for Best Film
David di Donatello for Best Actor

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CinemaSerf2026-06-10
★ 7/10
When we are first introduced to the unassuming "Titta" (Tony Servillo) we do have to wonder what could possibly fill the next hundred minutes. He lives from day to day out of an hotel room, and a budget hotel room at that, offering some internal observations of many he sees but talking to no-one. Then, like a bolt of lightning, he encounters barmaid "Sofia" (Olivia Magnani) and she seems to have quite a magnetic effect on him. He begins to actually speak with her and that's when his defences of silence and solitude begin to lower and we begin to learn of his former connections with the Mafia and of the reasons for his comfortable, but lonely, incarceration. Now that he has put his head above the parapet after eight years, though, his now more public profile starts to attract some unwelcome attention that proves likely to have perilous consequences if he isn't careful - and not just for him. This isn't a film that races along, nor is there a surfeit of dialogue. Instead, this is a stylish film to look at with gently bubbling noirish elements as the characters are carefully developed and the plot proceeds in a largely unexpected fashion. Servillo is a master at the less-is-more style of presentation, and here his glances and inflexions compensate for his own welcome dearth of verbiage and as Magnani starts to get a little more of the thread, we start to see a love story of unlikely proportions develop and quite profoundly change the direction of their lives. There are tiny degrees of menace accruing thanks to a dodgy bank manager, a ruthless assassin clad in a tracksuit and to a depiction of organised crime that isn't quite as described by Mario Puzo and I must confess to finding the final scene mildly amusing (and fitting) in a slushy sense. Maybe it would have looked better in black and white?

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