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Simply unmissable.

Dormant Beauty expands beyond the central case to look at myriad issues around coma, caring, bereavement, euthanasia, suicide and choice.

The plot may be straightforward but the characters are offbeat.

Sorrentino dares to tread where the great have gone before and leaves his own distinctive mark.

A continually shifting style, with moments of brilliance and other scenes which feel structurally derivative, threatens to overwhelm the story.

Though the film is slow in places and Andreotti's ambiguity can sometimes leave the viewer feeling too disconnected, there are moments of real brilliance.

Keeping us focused as the story meanders is Cipri's own elegant cinematography, which finds a poetry in the grimmest of places.

Italy is the classical home of the diabolical morality tale, and beneath all the sophisticated modern trappings that's exactly what we have here.

Servillo has spent much of the latter part of his career playing narcissistic characters, and he’s perfectly cast here.

It takes real directorial skill to deliver something so shallow across two and a half hours and keep the audience gripped.

Part farce, part political commentary, part soul-searching device.

The dual plotline never really works. There isn't enough happening in either man's life and the parallels are too obvious.