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Jul 5, 2015 · He reveals that it is just a trick. Earlier in the film, a performance artist hurls herself at a stone column and smacks into it head first. This is just part of her performance, but is the most memorable as it appears that she has physically harmed herself, drew blood even, and all for art.
Dec 17, 2013 · “After all, it’s just a trick.” “The Great Beauty” is a movie I could see again, and not just because it’s beautiful but because I’m curious about all that I missed amid its swirl. Jep, like Marcello before him, straddles the profane and the sacred, the great pointlessness and the great beauty.
Nov 16, 2023 · What’s revealed by the likes of the eyes of the traffic light isn’t a trick. The great beauty is real. The trick is to reposition ourselves to experience its undiminished enchantment. The old director’s trick is to come up with an image—a girl whose eyes change colors every time she blinks—that revives the childlike clarity.
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Nov 30, 2023 · Yes, it’s just a trick. The film invites the audience to contemplate these complexities of life, art, and the search for purpose. May we contemplate the question that Sister Maria ask Jep, “Do you know why I only eat roots?
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No longer forgiving or tolerant of untruths and hypocrisy, the catastrophic jolt to Jep’s decadent lifestyle endows him with the power of an unselfconscious directness, even in the company of his closest friends, a refreshing attribute for a writer more used to massaging facts to his advantage. After a female companion pontificates about her life’s...
Jep is experiencing life in a way he has never seen before. As he haunts the evening nightlife exuding vampiric elegance to the score of Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs(No. 3, Op. 36), beauty is everywhere, beckoning him with her sultry, mysterious eyes—a woman on a flight of steps who reminds him perhaps of someone he once knew; an ageing st...
The Great Beautyis exquisitely shot, with panoramic views over the River Tiber and its bridges, along with candlelit tours of imposing galleries and palaces, making the city an integral character in the drama. Coupled with the sumptuous original musical score by Lele Marchitelli, we feel we are watching a magnificent opera, with our senses saturate...
In the elegant and poignant final moments, Jep reflects on his past and the Beatific Vision, that glimmer of truth he once beheld, if only for a moment: Echoing Céline’s words, he knows that even the beauty of Rome cannot save him. And therein lies the tragicomedy, which we must call life. The film ends with its credits superimposed on an extended,...
Nov 14, 2013 · “The Great Beauty,” however, only deals with political ramifications through their absence: Sorrentino’s expressionistic opus depicts a group of aging artists tired of dealing with the world...
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Nov 14, 2013 · The scene is so breathtakingly graceful partly because the CGI flamingos are manifestly fake, just like the giraffe that a magician elsewhere causes to vanish, saying “It’s just a trick.”
