Toni Servillo
Jep Gambardella
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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]
Mar 14, 2014 · A 65-year-old journalist and writer reflects on his life and Rome's nightlife after a shock from the past. The film won an Oscar and explores themes of beauty, absurdity, and mortality.
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- Drama
- Paolo Sorrentino
- 2014-03-14
A character study of a writer who mocks and mingles with Rome's elite, but seeks inspiration and romance. The film is a Fellini-esque and Sorrentino-esque blend of comedy, drama and visual beauty, starring Toni Servillo.
Watch The Great Beauty with a subscription on Max, rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Dazzlingly ambitious, beautifully filmed, and thoroughly ...
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- Toni Servillo
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Comedy, Drama
Synopsis. After his 65th birthday, Jep Gambardella, an aging intellectual and one-time writer, decides to dedicate his life to the search of a meaning. On the background of a mysterious and wonderful Rome, our main character slowly rediscovers beauty under the monotonous, empty shell of a lifetime between sinners.
Nov 14, 2013 · The first time you see Jep Gambardella, the Roman sensualist magnificently, poetically adrift in “The Great Beauty,” he has a cigarette clenched in the center of his big, bared, ocher-stained ...
A Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Toni Servillo as a journalist who rediscovers Rome. The Criterion edition includes new interviews, deleted scenes, and an essay by Phillip Lopate.
