The Great Beauty

Unrated

11/15/20132h 22m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

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.

Director:

Paolo Sorrentino

Status:

Released

Language:

Italian

Buget:

$9,200,000.00

Revenue:

$24,930,592.00

Key words:

journalist
based on novel or book
rome, italy
alcohol
birthday
vatican (holy see)
nightclub
giraffe
artist
beauty
satire
aging
love
church
art
drugs
flamingo

Cast

Toni Servillo

~ as ~

Jep Gambardella

Carlo Verdone

~ as ~

Romano

Sabrina Ferilli

~ as ~

Ramona

Carlo Buccirosso

~ as ~

Lello Cava

Iaia Forte

~ as ~

Trumeau

Pamela Villoresi

~ as ~

Viola

Galatea Ranzi

~ as ~

Stefania

Franco Graziosi

~ as ~

Conte Colonna

Sonia Gessner

~ as ~

Contessa Colonna

Giorgio Pasotti

~ as ~

Stefano

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Reviews (2)

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Andres Gomez
Written 9 year(s) ago
8
Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.
A
Asa_movies
Written 8 year(s) ago
10
Jep Gambardella: "The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere.

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This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick."

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From my point of view: This may be definitely the best subset of art, applied at the best moment in the movie scene, at the best moment of our living at the beginning of the 21st century. All wisdom said in a couple of sentences, helping us to enjoy life, and understand this way of enjoying as much as we can. Anyway, we do not have any better way to beat the trick of living, than just relaxing, realizing we are part of the trick and we cannot change it. So, just go on, time will pass! :)