The Great Beauty (The Life of the Party)

The Great Beauty  

La grande bellezza Italie-France 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino | vostEN | 141’ | digital | Cast : Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli

> Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 2014 | 12

Celebirty journalist Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

« Though Sorrentino’s vision of moral chaos and disorder, spiritual and emotional emptiness at this moment in time is even darker than Fellini’s, he describes it all in a pleasingly creative way that pulls audiences in through humor and excess. » (Hollywood Reporter)

« A subtly daring cinematic high-wire act – an entire film built around one character's unrealized, unspecified yearning. And it might just be the most unforgettable film of the year. » (New York Magazine)