Paolo Sorrentino : 2013
The Great Beauty
It's summer in Rome and the eternal city shines with an elusive and definitive beauty. Indifferent and seductive, it offers itself up to the astonished eyes of tourists. Jep Gamberdella is sixty-five and his character emanates a charm that time has not ravaged. In his youth he was the author of a single novel, "The Human Machine", but has written nothing since. He is a successful journalist who flits between culture and high society in a Rome that never ceases to be a sanctuary of wonder and greatness, and his life is a succession of appointments and eccentric festivals. Behind the decadence and decay of reality, the city continues to preserve a hidden and sometimes desperate beauty. Jep, now cynical, disenchanted and suffering, witnesses the crisis of a society that seems to have turned men into monsters. As he watches the procession of vacuous and dissatisfied humanity, as powerful as it is depressing, he bitterly recollects the passionate, innocent love of his lost youth. Perhaps it is time for him to start writing again? The film premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2013.
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