Cast: Carlo Buccirosso , Carlo Verdone, Galatea Ranzi , Iaia Forte , Isabella Ferrari, Massimo De Francovich , Pamela Villoresi , Roberto Herlitzka , Sabrina Ferilli, Toni Servillo
Synposis:
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.
dir. Paolo Sorrentino / Italy 2013 / Color / 2.35 / 142 min / In Italian w/ English subtitles
Director: Paolo Sorrentino Biography
Born in Naples in 1970, Paolo Sorrentino is one of Italian cinema's most distinctive and stylish filmmakers. In 1998 his short film Love Has No Boundaries established a relationship with Indigo Films, who have produced all of his films to date. In 2001, his first feature, the dramatic comedy One Man Upi>, won the Silver Ribbon for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. The film also marked his first collaboration with actor Toni Servillo. The Consequences of Love (2004), Sorrentino's second film, premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won 5 David di Donatello Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Cinematography. The film Il divo (2008), a portrait of the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury Prize at Cannes and featured a stunning performance by Toni Servillo. Following This Must Be the Place (2011), his first film to be shot in America, Sorrentino returned to his home country for the acclaimed The Great Beauty (2013).
"Rome is a place where, more than any other city, the sacred and the profane go together."
- Interviewed by Larry Rother for The New York Times
"What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy."
- Interviewed by David Gregory Lawson for Film Comment
"Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover. This movie tries to find the beauty that's hidden."
- Interviewed by Brian Brooks for The Film Society of Lincoln Center
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