The Great Beauty

2013
The Great Beauty
7.7| 2h22m| en| More Info
Released: 21 May 2013 Released
Producted By: France 2 Cinéma
Country: Italy
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.indigofilm.it/produzioni/film/61/la-grande-bellezza
Synopsis

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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haventmadeupmymindyet Visually stunning. Luca Bigazzi's cinematography is outstanding not to mention Toni Servillo's performance. Paolo Sorrentino made Italians proud again!
zanmorrow I try to watch the foreign language film winners and have seen some very moving films. But this was just too languid for me. Rome looks beautiful but the people within it in this film aren't really happy and quite dismissive of it. Jep is the protagonist, a party animal who realises at age 65 his life has been quite wasted after becoming famous for one small novel written decades ago. He does interviews for newspapers and his editor is the only sympathetic character in the novel. The rest rely on drugs, sex, clothes, parties to give them satisfaction. This could make a good film but Jeb just wanders around getting sadder and sadder. Friends leave Rome, die, suffer despair. The film has some nice surreal dream sequences and beautiful views, gorgeous rooms. Sitting under the stars at night in an outdoor sitting room with sofas, tables and lights looks divine but that's the on,y bit of this film that reached me.
valadas This looks like to be the message of the movie or at least the opinion of its main character, Jep Gambardella, a journalist who has failed as a writer. He has nevertheless ambitions and opinions about life and the world in his beautiful house in Rome with a view to the Colosseum. But when he reaches 65 he realizes that he has wasted his life in mundane high society parties being much endeared by the women even at that age. He becomes then very disillusioned and seeks often refuge in memories and nostalgia of the past. All this develops itself in beautiful images and scenes of interiors and exteriors and beautiful film framings including of mundane parties and balls. There are also discussions sometimes superficial, sometimes deeper about human nature and the life and behaviour of this or that character. We must not forget that we are among high society members. No worker or proletarian is ever seen. We see a lot of characters sometimes very strange in terms of faces and behaviours. A good movie about life or at better its vacuity for those who think so.
Hitchcoc This is one of the most visually remarkable films I've ever seen. It captures the spirit and beauty of Rome. The camera delves into corners and crevices of the night life and the daytime of this eternal city. This is the story of a man who has debauched his way through life. At sixty-five, he begins to wonder what happened. He is highly respected for his single book (he never wrote another) and has casual friends who are more users than true companions. He hearkens back to a relationship he had earlier, where a woman he could have had, instead ends up with a close friend, who, it turns out, never made her happy. The actions of the characters are vacuous and relatively feckless. He encounters artists who are mostly show and little substance. We see self-indulgent women wasting their lives. This is certainly more about the journey than the result. The people who are most solid in this man's life are the one's he takes for granted. Death seems to be around the corner and what do we do until that happens? Does it make any difference what we do? The beauty here is all around, but is wasted on most of these people.