Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
Loro
Director: Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty,” “Il Divo”)
Cast: Toni Servillo, Riccardo Scamarcio, Chiara Iezzi, Elena Sofia Ricci, Ricky Memphis
Details: After a side trip to TV with HBO’s “The Young Pope,” Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino returns with his first film since “Youth”. Boasting a script co-written by Umberto Contarello, the project is a much anticipated biopic of Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media tycoon and longest-serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy who is currently banned from serving in public office.
Berlusconi still holds much power in the country, including control of Sorrentino’s usual financiers Medusa Film, which meant he had to seek financing elsewhere to tell his story. How much of the Italian-language film will show is not clear, though it’s likely Berlusconi’s infamous ‘bunga bunga’ parties will get at least a mention. It has also been said this film doesn’t intend to be a scathing critique so much as an examination of absolute power.