But on arrival in the promised land their dreams are quickly dashed: jobs are scarce, cops are brutal and public opinion has turned sharply against these poverty-stricken ‘Okies’. He plays Tom Joad, the eldest son of a dirt-poor Oklahoma farming family who returns from prison to find his folks on the verge of shipping out to California. John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel may wander away from its source material, but it remains one of the most soulful and intense films in the Hollywood canon, thanks in large part to Henry Fonda’s note-perfect central performance. Finally, the set hits its peak with ‘ The Great Beauty’, Time Out’s number one film of 2013, a work of astonishing visual mastery and riveting intelligence.
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Servillo gives perhaps his finest performance as corrupt Christian Democrat Giulio Andreotti, and the film plays out as a series of eye-frazzling, soul-shaking vignettes. But director and star were reunited for ‘ Il Divo’, a stunning portrait of greed and power in Italian politics. ‘ The Family Friend’ drops Servillo in favour of Giacomo Rizzo, who plays a lecherous smalltown moneylender whose grotesque desires complicate the wedding of two young lovers. But his star began to rise with ‘ The Consequences of Love’, the frosty, mournful tale of a Mafia hit man – played by Servillo – seeking a moment’s rest in his old age. Sorrentino’s first feature – and first collaboration with regular leading man Toni Servillo – 2001’s ‘One Man Up’, never got a UK release, so it’s the least known of the titles here. This box collects all of his Italian-language features, skipping over US-set drama ‘ This Must Be the Place’. In a relatively short space of time, Italian maestro Paolo Sorrentino has established himself as one of the leading lights of world cinema.
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