Release CalendarDVD & Blu-ray ReleasesTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsIn TheatersComing SoonMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersEmmysAPA Heritage MonthSTARmeter AwardsSan Diego Comic-ConNew York Comic-ConSundance Film FestivalToronto Int'l Film FestivalAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)

The Consequences of Love

Original title: Le conseguenze dell'amore
  • 20042004
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
17K
YOUR RATING
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • IMDbPro
Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
Watch {VideoTitle}
Play trailer1:59
1 Video
56 Photos
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Romance
An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
17K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Paolo Sorrentino
  • Writer
    • Paolo Sorrentino
  • Stars
    • Toni Servillo
    • Olivia Magnani
    • Adriano Giannini
Top credits
  • Director
    • Paolo Sorrentino
  • Writer
    • Paolo Sorrentino
  • Stars
    • Toni Servillo
    • Olivia Magnani
    • Adriano Giannini
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 43User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 20 wins & 21 nominations

    Videos1

    Trailer [OV]
    Trailer 1:59
    Trailer [OV]

    Photos56

    Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Gaetano Bruno in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Adriano Giannini and Olivia Magnani in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Olivia Magnani in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Adriano Giannini and Toni Servillo in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Toni Servillo and Olivia Magnani in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Olivia Magnani in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Gilberto Idonea and Toni Servillo in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Angela Goodwin and Raffaele Pisu in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Toni Servillo in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Toni Servillo in Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)

    Top cast

    Edit
    Toni Servillo
    Toni Servillo
    • Titta Di Girolamoas Titta Di Girolamo
    Olivia Magnani
    Olivia Magnani
    • Sofiaas Sofia
    Adriano Giannini
    Adriano Giannini
    • Valerioas Valerio
    Antonio Ballerio
    • Direttore Bancaas Direttore Banca
    Gianna Paola Scaffidi
    • Giuliaas Giulia
    Nino D'Agata
    • Nataleas Natale
    Vincenzo Vitagliano
    • Pippo D'Antòas Pippo D'Antò
    • (as Enzo Vitagliano)
    Diego Ribon
    Diego Ribon
    • Direttoreas Direttore
    Gilberto Idonea
    • Sicarioas Sicario
    Giselda Volodi
    Giselda Volodi
    • Camerieraas Cameriera
    Giovanni Vettorazzo
    • Letiziaas Letizia
    Gaetano Bruno
    Gaetano Bruno
    • Nicolòas Nicolò
    Ana Valeria Dini
    • Lettriceas Lettrice
    Vittorio Di Prima
    • Nitto Lo Riccioas Nitto Lo Riccio
    Angela Goodwin
    • Isabellaas Isabella
    Raffaele Pisu
    Raffaele Pisu
    • Carloas Carlo
    Pietro Manigrasso
    • Fattorinoas Fattorino
    Rolando Ravello
    • Uomo con Papillonas Uomo con Papillon
    • Director
      • Paolo Sorrentino
    • Writer
      • Paolo Sorrentino
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
    • All cast & crew

    More like this

    Il Divo
    7.3
    Il Divo
    The Family Friend
    7.1
    The Family Friend
    L'uomo in più
    7.2
    L'uomo in più
    The Great Beauty
    7.7
    The Great Beauty
    This Must Be the Place
    6.7
    This Must Be the Place
    Loro
    6.7
    Loro
    Youth
    7.3
    Youth
    The Hand of God
    7.3
    The Hand of God
    Loro 1
    6.7
    Loro 1
    Loro 2
    7.0
    Loro 2
    L'imbalsamatore
    7.0
    L'imbalsamatore
    Sabato, domenica e lunedì
    7.8
    Sabato, domenica e lunedì

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      The book the girl at the table reads is Louis-Ferdinand Céline's "Voyage au bout de la Nuit" (1932).
    • Goofs
      The barrel of the tracksuit-clad assassin's fired gun, lying on the hotel mattress while the assassin is packing for departure, appears defective, i.e., rubbery, as the silencer barrel is angled downward. Moments later, after he picks up the gun and points it at the hotel room door, the barrel appears longer and straighter, as it was in the earlier scenes.
    • Quotes

      Titta: In the world there's a certain kind of cult, with men and women of all social classes, of all ages and of all religions. It is the insomniacs cult. I'm part of it. For ten years. Those who don't belong to the cult sometimes tend to say: "If you can't sleep, you can read, watch TV, study or do something else". That kind of phrase is deeply annoying to the members of the cult. And the reason is simple. Cause the insomniac has only one obsession: to sleep.

    • Soundtracks
      Appocundria
      Written by Pino Daniele

      Performed by Pino Daniele

    User reviews43

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Intelligent black comedy that urges the viewer to think (after s/he laughs!)
    I saw this interesting film back to back with the Chinese/French film "2046" at the recent Dubai Film festival. Both were intelligent works made the same year (2004/2005). Both had the main characters living in a "hotel". In both films, the hotel is more a metaphor of exile than a location. Both dealt with love between a man and a woman. Both had wonderful music and riveting performances. What a coincidence and yet how the two films differ in treatment of the subject!

    Somewhere at the beginning of the film, a man walking on a pavement turns to look at a woman and in doing so hits a lamp post. The audience erupts into a volcano of laughter innocently. But isn't that brief shot the synopsis of the film, that entertains you for 2 hours? While the film is a wonderful blend of black comedy (e.g., using a stethoscope to listen to a neighbor's conversation in the adjoining hotel room), the film builds on what Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati had introduced to cinema earlier--stoic faces that leads to comedy quite in contrast to the equally intelligent world of Robin Williams or the heartwarming Danny Kaye. A sudden frenzy of activity transforms an otherwise stoic character while moving money from the hotel to the bank is reminiscent of Tati's works.

    But the film is not mere comedy. The anti-automation statement (cash counting and the reaction of the bank staff to the statements relating to it, the dummy that acts as an ineffectual warning to the speeding lady, the reference to "Moulimix" as the fictitious "company" he works for, etc.) are several cues that the director is offering a loaded comedy to the viewer. Laugh, yes, but reflect on it and enjoy further..

    The movie's strength lies in is brief, staccato script (by director Paul Sorrentino) that offers comedy that is mixed with philosophy ("Truth is boring," "Dad is dead, but nobody told him," "Bad luck does not exist--it is the invention of the losers and the poor". Then the director goes on to provide you with a fascinating lecture from the main character on insomniacs. You will not sleep through this lecture.

    Sorrentino provides entertainment pegged to the subject the Italians know best--the Mafia. It is an existential mafia film.

    There is a loaded philosophical sequence where a young girl, sitting opposite the lead character Titta Di Girolamo, reads aloud a passage from a book: "Whatever he wants can happen. What a fine mess. That is the advantage of using memories to excite oneself. You can own memories, you can buy even more beautiful ones. But life is more complicated, human life especially so, a frightening, desperate adventure. Compared to this life of formal perfectionism, cocaine is nothing but a stationmaster's pastime. Let us return to Sophie.. We become poetic as we admire her being, beautiful and reckless, the rhythm of her life flowed from different springs than ours. Ours can only creep along, envious. This force of happiness both exciting and sweet, that animated her, disturbed us. It unsettled us in an enchanting way, but it unsettled us nevertheless. That's the word." The reaction of Titta to the passage is interesting. Titta is himself a cocaine addict. Titta looks at the barmaid of the hotel-his own "formal perfectionism." The following sequence is of Titta calling his own wife and daughter on the phone--a conversation filled more with silence than words. They, too, are Titta's "memories." The final sequence of the film is of Tittas' best friend Dino Guiffre working alone repairing a fault on an electricity pylon in biting wind in a snowy landscape--recalling his own best friend Titta. This is a film about friendship that transcends the mafia.

    Since "Truth is boring", the director provides a dessert as part of the fine meal of superb acting (Toni Servillo), good music, clever camera-work (Luca Bigazzi), a beautiful, enigmatic actress (Magnani, grand-daughter of the great, immortal beauty Anna Magnani) and powerful script. The dessert is for the viewer to figure out the truthful feelings of Titta, towards his family members, towards his hotel guests, towards the bar girl, towards the mafia, towards the bankers, towards the hotel owner, and towards his best friend Dino. (Assuming that the viewer accepts the eventuality of how Titta recovered his suitcase from the goons, how does he get inside his car and get it covered with its synthetic cover while he is still inside it?) Perhaps it is Sorrentino's admitted love for the literary works of Louis- Ferdinand Céline that has sculpted the character of Titta. The film's end will remain an enigmatic one for a reflective viewer.
    helpful•10
    4
    • JuguAbraham
    • Dec 29, 2005

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • September 24, 2004 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Official site (Italy)
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Наслідки кохання
    • Filming locations
      • Lugano, Cantone Ticino, Switzerland
    • Production companies
      • Fandango
      • Indigo Film
      • Medusa Film
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Budget
      • €2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,556,056
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004)
    Top Gap
    By what name was Le conseguenze dell'amore (2004) officially released in India in English?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    View list
    List
    The 10 Most Anticipated Marvel and DC Movies
    See the full list
    View list
    List
    2022 TV Guide: The Best Shows Coming This Year
    See the full list

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Interest-Based Ads

    © 1990-2022 by IMDb.com, Inc.