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Sorrentino's impressively confident second feature manages
to be entertaining, pleasingly intelligent and surprisingly
substantial. It centres on Titta, a quiet, smart, very serious
and very secretive 60-year-old Italian who lives anonymously
and pretty joylessly in a Swiss lakeside hotel. Expert in
shady finance but not in affairs of the heart, he keeps
his cards close to his chest, too wary even to speak to
the beautiful hotel barmaid Sofia . . . until odd figures
from his past start turning up at the hotel.
Kicking off as a genuinely squewed character study before
taking an agreeable turn into the realms of romantic crime-thriller,
this contrives to blend comedy, suspense and understated
sentiment to intriguing and witty effect. A delight.
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