Synopsis
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza, 2013) is Paolo Sorrentino's drama, available to watch online on iFILM. Toni Servillo plays the aging dandy at its center.
Jep Gambardella wrote one fine novel decades ago. Since then he has reigned over Rome's loudest parties — a journalist, a wit, the guest every host wants on the terrace at dawn. On his 65th birthday something cracks. Word arrives from a love he buried in his youth, and suddenly Jep looks past the nightclubs to the city itself: its palazzi, its ruins, its impossible beauty that goes on glittering whether anyone feels anything or not.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe, and critics quickly tied it to Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Luca Bigazzi's camera drifts through nocturnal Rome as if drunk on the sight of old facades under the moon. It asks a quiet question: what is left once the party ends and the last lamp goes dark? Stream The Great Beauty (2013) online on iFILM.
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