Great Beauty
A deliriously alive movie, 'The Great Beauty' is the story of a man, a city, a country and a cinema, though not necessarily in that order.
The Great Beauty
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) 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.
An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
A Golden Globe winner for Best Animated Foreign Language Film.
An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
A Golden Globe winner for Best Animated Foreign Language Film.
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
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Runtime
142
Language
Italian,
Japanese,
Spanish,
Chinese
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast
Toni Servillo
Awards:
Winner, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
FEATURED REVIEW
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Jep Gambardella, the aging Roman journalist played by the great Toni Servillo in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s tour de force “The Great Beauty,” tells us that when he was young his friends always had the same answer to the big question: “pussy.” His answer was different: “The smell of old ...
Played at
Town Center 5 11.29.13 - 12.19.13
Playhouse 7 11.29.13 - 3.16.14
Royal 12.06.13 - 12.12.13
Claremont 5 12.06.13 - 12.12.13
NoHo 7 12.20.13 - 12.24.13
Monica Film Center 12.21.13 - 1.26.14
Lumiere Music Hall 12.25.13 - 1.30.14
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