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The Great Beauty

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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. From TMDB

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: “The Great Beauty” (2013), directed by Paolo Sorrentino youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0

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  • Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2025

    Pleased to write abt the beaut costuming of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 for @lwlies.com, in a series on Italian screen style. On 4th & 5th July, join us at Regents Street Cinema. We'll be screening Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty &then Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse: lwlies.com/partnership/...

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  • 🧙🏻‍♂️ Mark Sebring @msebring.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    🎬 The Best Movie I Watched Today: "The Great Beauty" (2013) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino

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  • Thom Rozendaal @rozendaalarts.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2025

    Rewatched 'The Great Beauty' (La Grande Bellezza) for I think the third time. It's so beautiful, if you haven't seen it please watch, and if you have, tell me all about it here, please. This is a portrait drawing of Annaluisa Capasa portraying an old love interest of the main character's

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  • BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2024

    Sort of like THE GREAT BEAUTY meets OPPENHEIMER. Another film that understands that electronic music throbbing away in a nightclub can be one of the most sinister things in the world. Featuring a supporting performance by the Polynesian Benicio Del Toro.

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    I’m finally really using Letterboxd, slowly logging what I’ve seen. I mainly rate movies against what they’re trying to be. So I feel fine giving 5 stars to The Other Guys (the Ferrell comedy), Inglourious Basterds (my fav Tarantino), and The Great Beauty (my fav film) Let’s hang! boxd.it/bMMAn

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  • David Belbin @davidbelbin.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    Youth is probably his worst film. Anything with Toni Servillo in (including the latest, La Grazia) is terrific. Maybe start with his most Felliniesque movie, The Great Beauty.

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    My favorite film is The Great Beauty. I’m a sucker for spy thrillers, especially anything based on Le Carré. I think When Harry Met Sally is the best Rom-Com of all time; Breaking Away is the best sports film of all time; and Michael Clayton is the best George Clooney film of all time.

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2025

    “The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews Parthenope, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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  • Lost in Criterion @lostincriterion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty is an exploration of art and partying. It's performance all the way down, guiding us through each circle.

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  • Joshua Rothkopf @joshuarothkopf.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    In hailing distance of hedonistic satires like THE GREAT BEAUTY but with a sharper political edge, Nadav Lapid's excoriating comedy YES is definitely the movie of the moment. Here's my review. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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  • Simon Mackie @simonmackie.ukBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    This is used so well in the film The Great Beauty - that scene always makes me well up

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  • Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Maybe I need to watch The Great Beauty again (upper class in Rome). The film was available from my library’s streaming service and is overwhelmingly wonderful. Here’s just the opening scene: youtu.be/NdOZHGItkhk?...

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  • Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2024

    La Grande Belleza (The Great Beauty) (2013) Another of the great Rome movies, this won the best International Film Oscar for its year. A writer re-evaluates his life when he turns 65, which director Paolo Sorrentino turns into a feast for most of the senses. I was a big fan of this. #filmsky

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  • Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    Just watched 'Devil Wears Prada 2'. My ice cold take is that the film-makers are cowards. They should just have done what they clearly wanted to do: get Hathaway, Streep, Blunt and Tucci to take a load of mushrooms and remake 'The Great Beauty'.

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    lol. That’s a great movie. It’s Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty

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  • 🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    ...its qualification is determined by its late French release, then that gets complicated. 2014 ceremony would have it up against THE GREAT BEAUTY (another film people turned against). A tight race it probably just loses. 2015 has it up against IDA. Unlikely to top that a year late. 2/2

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    The Great Beauty was a huge foreign film hit in 2007, it definitely created him a generation of fans. Well worth seeing.

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  • Media News @media-news.at.thenote.appBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Paolo Sorrentino Opens Up About How ‘Movies Saved My Sad Life’ Ahead of Venice Premiere of ‘La Grazia’ Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is readying the world premiere of his latest film, “La Grazia,” which will compete for the Golden Lion at this m… #media #news

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  • Dave @daveturner.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2025

    I mostly listened to these in my youth, so: - Purple Rain (a quasi-cheat, but obviously #1 of any decade) - Pretty Woman - Beverly Hills Cop - Top Gun - Footloose - Flashdance - Any John Hughes teen movie For more recent movies, just The Great Beauty.

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  • 🎃Frankensteinar🪓😱 @filmloftet.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Umiddelbart for meg er "La Dolce Vita" den ultimate Roma-film. The Great Beauty var veldig knall og, her er @raeggi.bsky.social enig.

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  • Beanie @waifudream.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    I'm glad you laughed but I meant it though 😂 anyway, on Letterboxd you're allowed to make a "Mt. Rushmore" list for movies attached to your profile (4 favorites) and for me those are Vanilla Sky, Net Games, The Ramen Girl and The Great Beauty. I want to make a movie group chat one day. 😊

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty is my favorite film of all time. He’s so good at satirizing and needling ego and superficiality

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  • Sasha Jones @vixsasha.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Haven’t a clue 😂😂😂.. I don’t rate movies best and worst .. I do like Wings Of Desire by Wim Wenders and I loved the film The Great Beauty which I thought was very poignant

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  • Itty Bitty Bitch @dumbass-allie.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Hell, thats literally a core theme of one of my favorite films, literally titled "The Great Beauty" (Sorrentino, 2013). Great companion film to La Dolce Vita (1960) and many other of Fellini's later films.

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  • Simon Mackie @simonmackie.ukBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    There’s a scene about half way through the film The Great Beauty that uses Arvo Pärt’s version and it’s so beautiful and melancholy- always makes me well up

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  • Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2025

    3. Parthenope “The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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  • Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Tonight’s film viewing, Sorrentino's 2013 offering; The Great Beauty. www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    My favorite overall genres are horror and thriller (big fan of Stephen King adaptations, love Silence of the Lambs, etc.). I love a good spy story, too (including just about any le Carré adaptation). But my fav film is Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and has been since I saw it in theaters.

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  • ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social @ianneilschmidt1.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2025

    @4paws-10toes.bsky.social Here's another film with a superb film score: The Great Beauty Director Paolo Sorrentino Italy 2013

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  • Treehouse of Howers @tylerhower.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    Put some furniture together while watching The Great Beauty today. How is that movie so perfect on the problems of aging and realizing what matters? And, beautiful.

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  • Matt J Garner @sci-fi-barfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    Parthenope didn't really work for me, but the film is undeniably gorgeous to look at! On a Paolo Sorrentino note, if you haven't already seen them, The Great Beauty (2013) & The Consequences of Love (2004) are both worth a look.

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  • Mike Finnerty @mikecjf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    Seeing Parthenope this afternoon - Sorrentino has been a weirdly large influence in my film life. Saw The Great Beauty just after it won the Oscar and that moved the needle for me and I'm on the IMDB review page for Hand Of God. Italian football might not do it for me anymore, but it's cinema does

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  • gioconni @gioconni.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    The last screening was "The Great Beauty", and I remember hearing your praise about the movie in one of the first episodes of the podcast I listened to, I think 362, and I want to take the chance to thank you for all the years of great discussions about movies.

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  • Screen Realm @screenrealm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2025

    #PARTHENOPE - now in Australian cinemas - has scattered moments of brilliance and the type of visual elegance we have come to expect from filmmaker #PaoloSorrentino (The Great Beauty), but his latest #film's beauty outshines its substance. Our #review...

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  • Italian News by RSS @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 31, 2026

    Domani: L’Ia spiega La grande bellezza. E io mi bevo un buon rosé Sono stato a una festa tra i trulli a Castellana Grotte: è finita con una gigantesca spaghettata all’assassina. A Milano, dal mio archivio recupero il pezzo più sentimentale che ho scritto: un’intervista a Sabrina Ferilli AI explains The Great Beauty. And I drink a good rosé. I went to a party among the trulli in Castellana Grotte; it ended with a gigantic, killer spaghetti feast. In Milan, from my archive I retrieve the most…

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  • twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    Which reminds me of this Arvo Part song from the movie, The Great Beauty. Listen for the "roe" reference: La Grande Bellezza (colonna sonora) - "My Heart's in the Highlands" [The Great Beauty] www.youtube.com/watch?v=yya9...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    The (movie) The Great Beauty 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.8 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff»

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  • Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Btw re Rome recommendations: if time, by all means see Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous film The Great Beauty—so many scenes strolling through the city, seeing deeply. youtu.be/d5fT3vaJE5k

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  • CinemaSerf @Geronimo1967TMDB reviews · Mar 28, 2026

    I think it’s quite a testament to the performance from Toni Servillo here that he managed to turn a character that I pretty much despised at the start into one I almost pitied at the end. “Jep” is the literary equivalent of the one-hit wonder, but since writing the “Human Apparatus”, he has successfully sailed through his life in Rome until now, with his sixty-fifth birthday looming, he involuntarily begins to challenge the shallowness of his own existence. Sure, he has had the best of wine,…

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    😝 I passed out after 15 mins, but that was no judgement on the film, which was already above The Great Beauty and The Hand Of God. But I would say to him: either have juxtapositional/associative editing or dolly the camera around a bunch, but don’t do both - it looks messy.

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  • twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    #MovieTrailer This trailer is for one my all-time favorite films, "The Great Beauty" #Film www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxR...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    The (movie) The Great Beauty 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.8 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff»

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  • Desperado D. Mayor @desperado.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    My ★★★½ review of The Great Beauty (2013) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/d0aXAh

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    The (movie) The Great Beauty (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $9.99 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff» Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_great_...

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on November 15! What's your fave? 1. Children of Paradise 2. Ford v Ferrari 3. The Great Beauty 4. Nebraska Check out all 60 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    🎬 Top 4 Movies Released on November 15! What's your fave? 1. Children of Paradise (1946) 2. Ford v Ferrari (2019) 3. The Great Beauty (2013) 4. Nebraska (2013) 60 movies released today! Check them out at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film

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  • ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social @ianneilschmidt1.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    The Great Beauty is a truly fantastic film. I recommend watching it with The English Subtitles on, unless your Italian is very advanced. Plus The English Subtitles are better than the dubbed versions.

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  • alexis @infinitekismet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2025

    This film is quite beautiful, but I'm not sure if I enjoyed it beyond the visuals. Bummerrr. I was blown away by The Great Beauty and Youth. Will still look out for anything Sorrentino puts out. #Parthenope #PaoloSorrentino #filmsky

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  • Ian Banks @handle.invalidBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    Choose 50 non-English language films from world cinema that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 film per day for 50 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs & imdB link: Day 46. The Great Beauty 2013 Italy #movies #thegreatbeautymovie m.imdb.com/title/tt2358...

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  • Onișor Adrian @aconisor.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    The Great Beauty (2013) www.imdb.com/title/tt2358... #film

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  • Protiv @protiv.osintukraine.comBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    "I don't consider myself obsessed with beauty". "Medusa" talked to Paolo Sorrentino about his new dedication to Naples, "Partenope". The movie should appeal to fans of "The Great Beauty" and "Youth"

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  • FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Here's a chance to win a double pass to PARTHENOPE, the new film from Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). Parthenope is in cinemas Boxing Day

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  • MarkG @markggarcia.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    music.apple.com/us/album/the... Mood today, from my favorite movie, "The Great Beauty"

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  • Jim Fusilli @jimfusilli.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    TCM @tcmtv.bsky.social is presenting Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” overnight beginning at 2:15 a.m. ET. I kid you not when I say this film changed my life. youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0?...

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  • Ayrton O'Brien 🇵🇸 @ayrtonobrien.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Another hot take: Jep's birthday party in The Great Beauty (2013) is a better example of how to shoot music in film than the majority of 21st century musicals have shown in 2 and a half hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72s...

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  • Mayfair Theatre @mayfairtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2024

    Spirited Away - Presented by Ottawa Architecture Week on Mon Sep 30 at 9:30pm! Academy Awards: Best Animated Feature award winner! 5 Stars! (Guardian) Double-Bill with The Great Beauty at 6:30pm! Please RSVP for your free tickets for one or both movies! mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/spirit...

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  • Mayfair Theatre @mayfairtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2024

    The Great Beauty - Presented by Ottawa Architecture Week on Mon Sep 30 at 6:30pm! Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film award winner! 5 Stars! (CineVue) Double-Bill with Spirited Away at 9:30pm! Please RSVP for your free tickets for one or both movies! mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/the-gr...

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  • Asa_movies @Asa_moviesTMDB reviews · Apr 3, 2017

    Jep Gambardella: "The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere. ......................... This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the…

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  • Andres Gomez @tantyTMDB reviews · Dec 22, 2015

    Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.

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