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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: Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso. 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 ...
May 21, 2013 · For much of ‘The Great Beauty’, it feels like the film may only ever be a thrilling dip into a strange, rarefied world – a world where botox is on sale at high-class clubs and a mysterious...
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.
“The Great Beauty” is a visually stunning Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino that tells the story of Jep Gambardella, a jaded journalist and socialite who reflects on his life as he approaches his 65th birthday.
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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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.
