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The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

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The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

The Great Beauty (2013)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 02:15:03 | 7,15 Gb
Audio: Italian AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English, Italian
Genre: Art-house

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth 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.


Italian cinema is, at last, on a roll again. Perhaps not in the same way as when Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini and De Sica were batting masterpiece after masterpiece into the arena but maybe more prodigiously than at any time since the young Olmi and young Bertolucci were setting the screen alight. In recent years we have had Michelangelo Frammartino's "Le Quattro Volte", Gianni De Gregorio's sublimely gentle comedies "Mid-August Lunch" and "The Salt of Life" and, perhaps best of all, the films of Paolo Sorrentino whose "The Consequences of Love", "The Family Friend" and "Il Divo" were highly original and sufficiently off-the-wall to invite comparisons with Fellini. His one venture into English-language cinema, "This Must be the Place", met with a largely hostile reception from critics who accused him of being self-indulgent but I found the film to be gorgeous and quirky and just what I would have expected from so idiosyncratic a talent. And now we have "The Great Beauty", a return to Italy and a return to, what his critics might see as, earlier form.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

This film, too, has been compared to Fellini which is entirely appropriate as this is a "La Dolce Vita" for the 21st century. You can even imagine the film's central character, Jeb, as Marcello, older if hardly wiser and for Sorrentino nothing much has changed. But if this is Sorrentino in Fellini mode it's just as close to the beauty and spectacle of "Amarcord" or, more appropriately, "Juliet of the Spirits". Once again the lead is taken by Toni Servillo, who was Sorrentino's Andreotti in "Il Divo" and once again he confirms his position as one of the cinema's finest actors, heading a truly superb ensemble cast.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

As in "La Dolce Vita" there is no real 'story' but rather a series of episodes in the life of Jeb in the days following his 65th birthday, (his birthday party is the first of the film's many great sequences). If there is a theme it's Jeb's increasing disillusionment with the lifestyle he has associated himself with over the years, a lifestyle he is very reluctant to give up, no matter how pragmatically he views it. He is a man who has had many women but no real relationship to speak of, (the early love of his life married someone else). He meets the daughter of an old friend, a 42 year old stripper with a drug habit, and they strike up a relationship of sorts though when they go to bed together he is happy when they don't have sex. He gets sustenance from his friends although he can be cutting and abrasive in their presence. It seems as it is they, and not money or power, which keeps him going.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

This is a magnificent movie, the kind of film that you know is being composed, frame by gorgeous frame, by a master film-maker. It is a breathtaking melange of sound and images, of great performances and superlative dialogue that draws you in and holds you from its first shot to its last. Some directors open their films with great tracking shots but Sorrentino saves his to the end, up, over and under the bridges of the Tiber as the final credits roll. Don't leave the cinema to the very last second.
IMDB Reviewer
The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

Pipped to the Palme d'Or post this year by Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza, 2013) is a sparkling return to form for Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, following the disappointment of his bemusing English-language debut This Must Be the Place (2012). Starring regular collaborator Toni Servillo, Sorrentino has crafted a masterful ode to human existence, complete with its dizzying highs and miserable lows. Drunk on the visual majesty of Rome, just as Fellini once was, this is arthouse cinema at its most effortlessly entrancing, with life and art blending into one magnificent whole.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

Jep Gambardella (Servillo), a 65-year-old journalist and one-time novelist (whose sole literary endeavour, The Human Apparatus, was published to widespread acclaim during his youthful heyday), is seeing out his days amongst Rome's high society, in what he describes as "the whirl of the high life" - a vortex of rooftop parties and decadent late-night soirées. However, when Jep learns of the tragic death of a beautiful woman he loved as an 18-year-old, the writer's past regrets and misdemeanours are suddenly thrust back into the fore. Having now reached the age where he considers himself too old to do things he has no passion for, Gambardella sets out to find and capture life's "grande bellezza".

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

Taking influence rather than aping such Italian grandmasters as Fellini and Antonioni, Sorrentino may well have made his masterpiece. Whereas his murky 2008 political drama Il Divo (also starring Servillo as real-life figure Giulio Andreotti) sought to chastise Italy's dark heart, The Great Beauty is a joyous cerebration of humankind's fleeting mortality, personified in the cultured, yet anti-pretentious Jep. In an early scene, Gambardella has been dispatched by his paper to interview a communist performance artist, whose latest 'statement' involves dashing her head against an ancient aqueduct. Jep quickly cuts through the hogwash, uncovering bullshit rather than brilliance in typically mercurial fashion. His search continues.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

Servillo is simply unmissable as the film's charismatic lead; a warm-hearted, keen-minded humanist who nevertheless holds a sting in his tail for those who believe themselves above either himself or his eclectic friendship circle (one of whom is sharply rebuked after stepping out of line). The death of a former teenage fling - who's remembered fondly and sumptuously by Jep in a series of flashbacks - serves as a timely wake-up call for the wandering wordsmith, a man who has seen a host of lovers come and go without ever finding that special someone who really mattered. So, is his dilemma purely spiritual? His failed attempts at engaging in theological discourse with a high-ranking cardinal (rumoured to have once been Europe's top exorcist) would suggest that even the man upstairs has his work cut out with Signor Gambardella.

The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

Luca Bigazzi's spellbinding cinematography captures Rome at its very best, often pausing with Jep to take in the various sights and sounds of the ancient Italian capital. Indeed, we begin with a Japanese tourist so caught up with what lies in front of him that he dies on the spot. Add to this an eclectic soundtrack ranging from classical pieces such as John Tavener's The Lamb (a recurring theme) to contemporary efforts including Yolanda Be Cool's We No Speak Americano, and the film begins to almost overwhelm. Fortunately, Sorrentino once again proves himself to be an astute pacemaker, juxtaposing epic rooftop parties with contemplation and reflection as "little Jep" (as his editor calls him) takes stock of himself once more. Suave, sophisticated and spiritually uplifting, The Great Beauty has itself set the pace sublimely for this year's chasing arthouse pack.
The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013) [Re-UP]

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