After the creepily effective The Family Friend, writer-director Paolo Sorrentino takes on the far harder task of interesting us in Giulio Andreotti, the three-times Italian PM who survived while many associates and opponents met sudden deaths, notably kidnapped PM Aldo Moro. In an impossibly tangled tale, lead Toni Servillo walks like a sleepwalker, talks without inflection and looks expressionless and colourless, like Geoffrey Howe with Charles Clarke's ears. It is astonishing that a film so accusatory can be made about a living character, and an unconvicted one.