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.
In Winx Club 3D Magical Adventure, Bloom is living happily with her parents in Domino as Princess of the Realm. Life has recently become even more exciting than usual, since her boyfriend Sky asked for her hand in marriage. Everything seems idyllic, with their love story reaching towards its destiny... but something has going awry! Sky’s father Erendor forbids Sky to marry Bloom, revealing a terrible secret he had concealed for a long time. Are the witches involved in the secret? Could it compromise the destiny of Domino and the entire Magic Dimension?
Directed by: Iginio Straffi
Leo and Ale are brother and sister bound to each other with invisible ties since childhood. Accidentally Leo learns that his sister's fiancé is going to make her a special gift – a house in Sicily which is the same villa that the brother and sister once had to leave after a family tragedy.
Cast: Alessio Boni, Valeria Solarino, Emir Kusturica
Directed by Roberto Ando
Scriptwriter: Roberto Ando
Producer: Roberto Ando
To Rome With Love is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.
Gemma visits Sarajevo with her son, Pietro. Sixteen years ago they escaped the war-torn city while the boy’s father remained behind and later died. As she tries to repair her relationship with Pietro, a revelation forces Gemma to face loss, the cost of war and the redemptive power of love. Starring Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch.
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.
Beginning of the twenty-third century.
Somewhere in the three evels of NYC, there's a woman with blue hair, who cries blue tears. Her name is Jill Bioskop.
She doesn't know yet, but Horus the falcon-headed god has cruised half the universe to meet her.
Horus has been sentenced to death by his peers. He has just seven days to live. Seven days to find Jill in the maze of the city and seduce her. But to do so, he needs to possess a human body. A vechile of flesh. It will be Alcide Nikopol, a political prisoner who was cryogenised thirty years before because he knew too much about the New York Apartheid.
Horus, Nikopol and Jill Bioskop… A weird ménage ? trois where everything is twisted: voices, bodies, memories… Everything but love, which shows up where it wasn't expected. Meanwhile, the pyramid of the gods flies above Manhattan, aliens make secret plans at the top of skyscrapers, a non-human serial killer walks the street of level 1…
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.