The Best Paolo Sorrentino Movies and Shows, Ranked

Paolo Sorrentino is arguably the most important Italian filmmaker nowadays. Critics like to compare him to Federico Fellini. “I’m not trying to be Fellini”, Sorentino says. “Maybe [the reference is made] because he was the greatest exponent of combining drama and comedy – but even Antonioni had a dark seam of irony running through his work. For me, it goes back to long-held Italian traditions where even in the lightest comedy there is some serious element, and in the darkest drama there is some comedy.”