The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty

  • Director: Paolo Sorrentino
  • Writer: Paolo Sorrentino,Umberto Contarello
  • Countries of origin: Italy, France
  • Language: Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese
  • Release date: March 14, 2014
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: La gran belleza
  • "La grande bellezza" is a feature film released by Indigo Film Company on April 11, 2013. The film is directed by Paolo and starring Toni Servillo , Sabrina Ferilli and Isabella Farelli. 
    The film mainly tells the story of a middle-aged writer strolling in Rome; Italian , looking for the memory of a lost youth. 

    Details

    • Release date March 14, 2014
    • Filming locations Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, Janiculum Hill, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Babe Film

    Box office

    Budget

    €9,200,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,852,400

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $23,442

    Gross worldwide

    $24,665,023

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dejah 2022-04-24 07:01:12

      "Roots Matter"

      A rare film of more than two hours, shot like prose, but not sleepy. After the plot of the section developed, I tried my best to figure out what the author of the puzzle wanted to express, and finally I finally understood it with the help of other people's film reviews.

      The first half of life is like an impressive new book, ambitious, to become the crown of the upper class, and the second half of life has become an indescribable nothingness, like a car that drives around the crown, but...

    • By Fidel 2022-04-24 07:01:12

      Those hard, tragic and painful human nature are buried under the embarrassment of being born as a human being, and it is impossible to say the screenshots of the classic lines of "City of Beauty"

      Usually the end of things is death

      This is how it always ends.

      With death.

      But first there will be life

      But first there was life.

      Hidden in this and that, I can't say enough

      Hidden beneath the blah,blah,blah.

      In fact, they have already settled in...

    • By Braeden 2022-04-23 07:02:28

      Sorrentino's beautiful poem

      After watching Sorrentino's "City of Absolute Beauty", it's like watching a lengthy and gorgeous MTV. You don't know what you're watching, but you don't know why you're full of melancholy.

      Even if the storyline is like the "nothing book" that Flaubert wanted to write, you do feel something. Those magnificent images, melancholy melodies, vague emotions, incomprehensible dialogues... all directly refer to the title of the film "La grande Bellezza" (The Great Beauty).

      Absolute...

    • By Nikolas 2022-04-23 07:02:28

      beautiful city

      Sorrentino said that he wanted to make a movie about nothingness, so he had a beautiful city; as mentioned many times in the movie, Flaubert wanted to write a book about nothingness when he was alive. The Beautiful City doesn't seem to say anything, but it's not so obscure and difficult to understand. The way the movie presents is different from that of traditional dramas. He is fragmented, focusing on characters rather than plots, and the plot is in the fragments. Self-sufficient; such as...

    • By Llewellyn 2022-04-23 07:02:28

      he is a roman city

      He was wandering in the city of Rome, and the glory and success of the previous half of his life had woven a huge net, everyone knew him, and everyone had nothing to do with him.

      He watched the city's decline and inevitable end—death, like himself, the rotten roots of vital roots, which eventually disappeared.

      Sublime beauty and bliss are extremely beautiful and cruel words, they correspond to despair and great sorrow

    User comments

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    • By Kayli 2023-09-19 05:49:13

      A gorgeous scene woven from a pile of colorful old cloth strips. Nothing but boredom. To make the Italians think is too embarrassing for them. A bunch of idle people wandering around, with a stale smell, always thinking of themselves very highly and despising...

    • By Seamus 2023-09-09 09:14:11

      In the past, I basically gave negative points to such super-stupid films, but the force shown in this film is higher than the sum of all the pretentious series of movies. The emptiness, pomp, anger, religious atmosphere, and breathtaking beauty presented in the film cannot be described in words. The appropriate symphony and beautiful composition stack up the atmosphere of the historical capital of Rome. Feel the atmosphere. Everything is just a...

    • By Trenton 2023-08-19 21:13:57

      1. It can be seen that the lens language and narrative structure are borrowed from Fellini, the music is wonderful, and the sculpture and architecture with light and shadow effects are impressive. 2. From the perspective of a 65-year-old man, the audience is guided to experience the life scenes of different people and the absurd irony in them. 3. Religious elements have become the daily life of Italians through sculpture, painting, architecture and music. 4. In different places, Fellini's films...

    • By Wendy 2023-08-16 00:18:03

      Paolo Sorrentino, 2013. I like it very much. In all cities with glory and history, in the face of ruins and ruins, as well as the people living around the ruins, confusion and reminiscence are all kinds of emotions that cannot be avoided. Flashy, carnival, thought, tolerance, debauchery, falsehood, literature, religion, and modern changes that have been turned over night and night, ancient Rome is reproduced in a modern attitude, and the greatest beauty is the beginning of...

    • By Ken 2023-08-06 00:34:36

      It would have been great if it had stopped abruptly when the nun was climbing the stairs. Half a Fellini. The beauty is really beautiful, and I really don't like the ending, it's too...

    Evaluation action

    "La grande bellezza" shows Rome; the beautiful literary atmosphere of Italian, Lentino shows modern Rome very well; the gorgeous carnival of Italian also unearths the decadent side of the city. (Netease evaluation) 
    Rome: The splendor and superficiality, skill and meaning of Italian make the whole film dense and compact. It seems that all of this is shocking. Sorrentino's film borrows the theme of Fellini's " Life Is Sweet ",...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jep Gambardella: To this question, as kids, my friends always gave the same answer: "Pussy". Whereas I answered "The smell of old people's houses". The question was "What do you really like the most in life?" I was destined for sensibility. I was destined to become a writer. I was destined to become Jep Gambardella.

    • Jep Gambardella: Madame Ardant!

      Fanny Ardant: [after a long pause] Bonne nuit.

    • Jep Gambardella: I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope.