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A partially fictionalised portrait of Silvio Berlusconi in the years leading into his final stint as Italy’s Prime Minister, Paolo Sorrentino’s latest project was released in his home country as two separate features, with a truncated mashed-up version making its way internationally.

Since this version clocks in at nearly two and a half hours, it feels safe to say that the weak bite in its, at times, strangely sentimental and soft-edged treatment of the notorious Berlusconi, probably... (more)