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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 ]
Jan 2, 2014 · Celebrating Rome in all its decay, this florid comedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, This Must Be the Place) opens with a hyperbolically gaudy party honoring a celebrity journalist (Toni Servillo)...
Aug 8, 2017 · The Great Beauty opens with a quote from Celine regarding life as an imaginary journey; and we, the film audience, see various historical monuments in Rome and a man washing his body in the pristine waters of a grand pool, first the great (marble monuments) then the mundane (the body in need of cleansing); and we hear and see a chorus; and ...
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.
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.
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.
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Nov 16, 2013 · Opening on package-tour views of classical Italian architecture set against lilting choral music, “The Great Beauty” abruptly cuts to a screaming Roman disco party swarming with distorted...
