Jep Gambardella is a writer who, after reaching success with his first novel, stops writing. The film places us many years after that: Gambardella has just turned 65, works as a cultural journalist in Rome and leads a life in which luxury, parties in large buildings and palaces are mixed, and surface relationships with intellectuals, artists, politicians or nobles in decline.
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, "The Great Beauty" ("The Grande Bellezza") has already won various awards worldwide (best film and director in the European cinema awards, Golden Globe for the best non -English speech movie) , and is intended to achieve several more, since it is nominated for prizes such as the BAFTA or the Goya, for example.
"Great beauty" is an excessive, tender, funny, terrible, festive, grandiloquent, delusional, bitter, exciting, nostalgic film. And, above all, beautiful. This consists of life in the background, in seeking beauty: a beauty that never begins and never ends, a beauty that can be found in each frame of this great film. The interpretation of Toni Servillo is absolutely masterful, and merges into a perfect duo with the other great protagonist: Rome, eternal, contradictory, chaotic and- how not- immensely beautiful.
A look full of hopeful love towards the human being and towards the world. And also, a wonderful film that should not be lost. The great beauty.
