CiNEMERCATOR - Paolo Sorrentino La Grande Bel lezza 2013
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Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
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Paolo Sorrentino La Grande Bellezza 2013
La Grande Bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo, is a lavish, amused and faintly melancholic drift through Rome after the party has gone on too long.
Servillo plays Jep Gambardella, a writer who achieved literary success early in life with a single celebrated novel. Decades later, he has become a polished fixture of Rome’s social scene: moving easily through rooftop parties, aristocratic apartments, performance art happenings and late-night strolls through the city’s monumental beauty. He is charming, observant and slightly detached, as if watching a long-running performance whose ending he already suspects.
Sorrentino fills the film with spectacle; ornate palaces, glittering fountains, surreal interludes and parties that stretch into the early hours. The camera moves restlessly through these spaces, lingering on faces, music and fragments of conversation. Rome itself becomes one of the film’s central presences: magnificent, excessive and quietly haunted by the weight of its past.
Often compared to the great Italian films of the 1960s, La Grande Bellezza mixes satire with genuine wistfulness. Its world is full of noise, spectacle and eccentric characters, yet beneath it runs a steady current of reflection about aging, memory and the strange persistence of beauty.
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