The Great Beauty
Jep Gambardella is a promising author with an award-winning debut novel. That was the one. Since then, his life has been socialist and art journalism. In his 65th year, he still surrounds jetsetters, life-threatening aristocrats, wannabe artists and decadent clerics, in a slight intoxication of gin & tonic, but he is occasionally revived in meetings with ascetic Sister Maria, the stripper Ramona and a friend who reveals that his wife never stopped loving Jep.
Death and life joints are recurring in La grande bellezza - The Great Beauty, and Sorrentino deliberately refers to Fellini and Antonioni's modernist masterpieces. The film lives up to its degree to its title: Photographer Bigazzi's Rome is dazzlingly beautiful; a melancholy beauty in stark contrast to human folly.
Original title: | La grande bellezza |
Category: | Feature Film |
Genre: | Drama, comedy |
Actors: | Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Franco Graziosi |
Director: | Paolo Sorrentino |
Producer: | Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano |
Script: | Paolo Sorrentino |
Country: | Italy |
Language: | Italian |
