2 h 22 min | Drama | Comedy

IMDB 7.8 / 10 (75073 votes)

The Great Beauty (2013)

La Grande Bellezza | France| Italy

With echoes of Fellini’s The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita, 1960), the film The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), shown at this year’s Cannes film festival, evokes cinematic admiration and makes one wish it would never end, while leading film critics tend to refer to it as the most momentous film of the festival. Jep Gambardella (actor Toni Servillo) is an indolent and disenchanted 65-year-old writer and journalist, coasting on his sole successful novel published nearly fifty years ago. A grey-haired man of property, an intellectual and a lion of eccentric high society gatherings, he is the Rome’s king of the socialites, expert in courting in a gentlemanly manner and laudably extending condolences at funerals. Sounds cynic? It probably does. Yet, deep in the heart, Jep is a romantic idealist and dreamer, engulfed in the swirl of the great beauty filled with vacuity and vanity. His penthouse suite overlooking the Coliseum is a regular place of gatherings for the bohemia and Rome’s elite. Jep finds himself to be an observer of a parade of the prominent and vacuous elite raging in never-ending parties and modern art performances he is a part of. Surrounded by a perpetual flurry, the man ponders why he did not write a second novel for several decades and tries to solve the agonising dilemma of his personal life. Glorifying the beauty of the eternal city, the heady film is full of Fellini-esque grotesque, critique of high society vacuity, and almost caricatured party shots mixed with intellectual discussions. This certainly the most beautiful film opens in cinema theatres in Latvia already from 15 November. Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verden, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi Directed by Paolo Sorrentino Italian language with latvian and russian subtitles.

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Director

Paolo Sorrentino

Writers

Paolo Sorrentino
Umberto Contarello

Stars

Toni Servillo
Jep Gambardella

Carlo Verdone
Romano

Sabrina Ferilli
Ramona

Carlo Buccirosso
Lello Cava

Iaia Forte
Trumeau

Pamela Villoresi
Viola

Galatea Ranzi
Stefania

Franco Graziosi
Conte Colonna

Sonia Gessner
Contessa Colonna

Giorgio Pasotti
Stefano

Others...

Budget

12,400,000.00

Revenue

24,164,400.00

Links

Keywords

based on novel, love, alcohol, party, drugs, rome italy, artist, journalist, nightclub, church, vatican, beauty, art, aging, birthday, giraffe, flamingo

Trailers

Production

Medusa Film, Canal+, Pathé!, France 2 Cinéma, France Télévisions, Fonds Eurimages du Conseil de l'Europe, Regione Lazio, Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Indigo Film, Mediaset, Babe Films, Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne, Lazio Film Commission, Biscottificio Verona

Actor

Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Franco Graziosi, Sonia Gessner, Giorgio Pasotti, Massimo Popolizio, Fanny Ardant, Luca Marinelli, Vernon Dobtcheff, Anita Kravos, Roberta Cartocci, Lorenzo Gioielli, Giulia Di Quilio, Monica Piseddu, Anna Della Rosa, Luciano Virgilio, Aldo Ralli, Giusi Merli, Dario Cantarelli, Massimo De Francovich, Giulio Brogi, Isabella Ferrari, Roberto Herlitzka, Annaluisa Capasa, Ivan Franěk, Pasquale Petrolo, Giovanna Vignola, Paolo Mazzarelli, Giorgia Ferrero, Manuela Gatti, Elisabetta Ventura, Mirko Frezza, Piero Gimondo

Creators

Paolo Sorrentino (Director), Paolo Sorrentino (Screenplay), Umberto Contarello (Screenplay), Luca Bigazzi (Director of Photography), Cristiano Travaglioli (Editor), Stefania Cella (Production Design), Lele Marchitelli (Original Music Composer), Daniela Ciancio (Costume Design), Anna Maria Sambucco (Casting), Nicola Giuliano (Producer), Francesca Cima (Producer), Luca Canfora (Assistant Costume Designer), Chiara Fabbri (Assistant Costume Designer), Laura Maccarone (Assistant Costume Designer), Olga Michalowska (Assistant Costume Designer), Chiara Nobile (Assistant Costume Designer), Lara Lucchetta (Researcher), Daria D'Antonio (Camera Operator), Alessandro Brambilla (Steadicam Operator), Gianni Fiorito (Still Photographer), Aldo Chessari (Underwater Camera), Alessandro Saulini (Gaffer), Enrico Barone (Visual Effects Coordinator), Rodolfo Migliari (Visual Effects Supervisor), Mauro Eusepi (Foley), Mirko Perri (Sound Effects Editor), Alessandro Checcacci (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Marco Perna (Key Hair Stylist), Maurizio Silvi (Makeup Department Head), Matteo Silvi (Makeup Artist), Rossella Gregorio (Makeup Artist), Aldo Signoretti (Wigmaker)

Alternative titles

La grande bellezza (AR)
A Grande Beleza (BR)
La gran belleza (CL)
Den store skønhed (DK)
Kohutav ilu (EE)
La gran belleza (ES)
Suuri kauneus (FI)
I teleia omorfia (GR)
A nagy szépség (HU)
Yafa la'netzakh (IL)
L'apparato umano (IT)
Didis grozis (LT)
Den store skjønnheten (NO)
Wielkie piekno (PL)
A Grande Beleza (PT)
Velika lepota (RS)
Den stora skönheten (SE)
Muhtesem Güzellik (TR)
The Great Beauty (US)
그레이트 뷰티 (KR)

Release dates

05.09.2013 (DK)
06.09.2013 (GB)
13.01.2014 (GB)
25.07.2013 (DE)
05.12.2013 (ES)
31.10.2013 (CZ)
31.10.2013 (SK)
15.11.2013 (US)
22.05.2013 (FR)
06.09.2013 (IE)
21.05.2013 (IT)