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The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza [la ˈɡrande belˈlettsa]) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or. [ 3 ]
- The Great Beauty Movie Locations: Via Veneto
- Parco degli Acquedotti
- The Great Beauty Movie Locations: Lungotevere
- The Great Beauty Movie Locations: The Baths of Caracalla
- The Great Beauty Movie Locations: Villa Del Priorato Di Malta
- The Great Beauty Movie Locations: Sant’Agnese in Agone
Via Veneto winds its way from Piazza Barberini to the Porta Pinciana at the Villa Borghese gardens. A central location in The Great Beauty, Via Veneto is home to some of Rome’s most expensive hotels, restaurants, boutiques and luxury shops. During the Roman Empire, this area was populated by the richest families and became an extremely popular loca...
The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome. Thanks to its proximity to Rome’s movie studios Cinecittà, this park is frequently used as a film location and the most memorable scene is the opening shot of La Dolce Vita. The Park of Aqueducts appears in Sorrentino’s The Great Beautytoo.
Rome’s watery artery, the River Tiber is the location where Romulus and Remus were abandoned to die and rescued by a she-wolf. The river flows through the city of Rome and enters the Tyrrhenian Sea near Ostia Antica. It has become as iconic as many of Rome’s monuments.
The Baths of Caracalla are some of the most massive ruins in Rome. This 28-acre complex could accommodate over 1500 bathers at a time. The Terme di Caracallawere the second largest Roman public baths built in the city of Rome, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla.
On the Aventine Hill, Villa del Priorato di Malta hosts the embassy of the Order of Malta and is home to the Grand Priory of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Originally a Benedictine abbey, the Villa is now famous for a keyhole of the central entrance, through which you can enjoy a stunning view ofSaint Peter’s Basilicafrom a distance.
Famous for its concave façade, Sant’Agnese in Agone is a Baroque church which faces onto the Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most famous and liveliest squares, located in the historic center, west of the Pantheon. In the crypt you can see a marble relief describing the story of Saint Agnes, the martyr of the church.
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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.
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- Drama
- Paolo Sorrentino
- 2014-03-14
Sorrentino draws heavily on this wealth by filming in the Aventino two scenes from The Great Beauty. The first is when Jep walks in front of the Basilica of Santa Sabina, one of the best preserved early Christian churches in Rome, dating back to 427 BC!
- Fabrizio Mariani
May 21, 2013 · Life is a performance and Rome is the stage in ‘The Great Beauty’ from Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director of ‘The Consequences of Love’ and ‘Il Divo’. In Sorrentino’s last film ...
Dazzlingly ambitious, beautifully filmed, and thoroughly enthralling, The Great Beauty offers virtuoso filmmaking from writer/director Paolo Sorrentino. Read Critics Reviews
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- Comedy, Drama
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Nov 15, 2013 · “The Great Beauty” is a character study that presents contemporary Rome through the eyes of Jep Gambardella (the brilliant Toni Servillo), a simultaneously overstimulated and underwhelmed taste-making intellectual. Jep is a writer, though he doesn’t really write.
