Rating: 7.7/10
User rating: 8/10
(16 votes)

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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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Review by hymie
Monday 8 March 2021 09:48
The spirit of Federico Fellini is alive and weird in The Great Beauty, the Oscar-winning ode to Rome from writer-director Paolo Sorrentino.

Sorrentino focuses on the marvellous Toni Servillo, his frequent star, as Jep Gambardella, a dandyish writer still living La Dolce Vita based on early, still-unrealized success. When we meet him, at a spectacularly staged party thrown for his 65th birthday, there’s plenty of female flesh on display. But Jep himself is a bit too jaded to care very... (more)
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