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- Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012.
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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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Mar 8, 2014 · The Great Beauty is “beautiful and ferocious,” to use the words that “la Santa,” the nun who makes her appearance towards the end of the film, uses to describe the novel Jep Gambardella, the film’s central character, published 40 years earlier.
Nov 14, 2013 · In the extraordinary 10 minute opening sequence, Sorrentino depicts a wildly hedonistic party populated by Jep and countless other carelessly energetic individuals dancing the night away, while...
The Great Beauty opens with forgivable cliché. It’s a scene of tourists on a hill overlooking the cityscape of Rome – a Japanese man faints from the sheer beauty of what he is seeing. The film then cuts to Gambardella’s 65th birthday party at night, pulsating with beautiful people.
Mar 24, 2014 · The film opens with placid, picturesque shots of the city waking up and going about its routines—a tourist’s Eternal City. Later, someone remarks that tourists are the best people in Rome (they travel, after all). In this first sequence, a Japanese tourist happily raises his camera—and promptly drops dead.
May 21, 2013 · As the film opens, he celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with a hedonistic party in his flash apartment which overlooks the Coliseum on one side and a convent on the other. In his world, the...
