The Great Beauty (2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Jacopo Bonvicini
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Umberto Contarello
Rating: 7.51/10 by 3080 users
Alternative Title:
Kohutav ilu - EE
I teleia omorfia - GR
Yafa la'netzakh - IL
Didis grozis - LT
Den store skjønnheten - NO
Велика лепота - RS
Suuri kauneus - FI
La gran belleza - ES
Country:
France
Italy
Language:
Italiano
日本語
Español
普通话
Runtime: 02 hour 22 minutes
Budget: $9,200,000
Revenue: $24,930,592
Plot Keyword: journalist, based on novel or book, rome, italy, alcohol, birthday, vatican, nightclub, giraffe, artist, beauty, satire, aging, love, church, art, drugs, flamingo
Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.
Jep Gambardella: "The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere. ......................... This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick." ................................................................................................................ From my point of view: This may be definitely the best subset of art, applied at the best moment in the movie scene, at the best moment of our living at the beginning of the 21st century. All wisdom said in a couple of sentences, helping us to enjoy life, and understand this way of enjoying as much as we can. Anyway, we do not have any better way to beat the trick of living, than just relaxing, realizing we are part of the trick and we cannot change it. So, just go on, time will pass! :)
