The Great Beauty
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Distributor: Janus Films
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) has been a permanent fixture in Rome’s literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city’s lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Academy Award Winner, Best Foreign Language Film
2013 Festival de Cannes
2013 Toronto Int’l Film Festival
2013 Toronto Int’l Film Festival
“An outlandishly entertaining hallucination”
—Mahnola Dargis, The New York Times
—Mahnola Dargis, The New York Times
“A spiritual apocalypse…One of the most casually eye-popping pieces of cinematic real-estate porn I have ever seen”
—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
“The movie is a masterpiece, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“
—Catherine Shoard, The Guardian UK
—Catherine Shoard, The Guardian UK