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The Great Beauty

142 minutes 2013 7.7

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.

The film is not playable outside of Norway
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