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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The Great Beauty
Overview
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.
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Release date
21/05/2013
Votes
3,343
Popularity
5.0
Toni Servillo
Jep Gambardella
Carlo Verdone
Romano
Sabrina Ferilli
Ramona
Carlo Buccirosso
Lello Cava
Iaia Forte
Trumeau
Pamela Villoresi
Viola
Galatea Ranzi
Stefania
Franco Graziosi
Conte Colonna
Sonia Gessner
Contessa Colonna
Giorgio Pasotti
Stefano
Massimo Popolizio
Alfio Bracco
Luca Marinelli
Andrea
Vernon Dobtcheff
Arturo
Anita Kravos
Talia Concept
Roberta Cartocci
Guida Turistica
Lorenzo Gioielli
Uomo Coppia Esibizionista
Giulia Di Quilio
Donna Coppia Esibizionista
Monica Piseddu
Madre Chiostro
Anna Della Rosa
Ragazza Esangue
Luciano Virgilio
Alfredo Marti
Aldo Ralli
Cardinale
Giusi Merli
Santa
Dario Cantarelli
Assistente Santa
Massimo De Francovich
Egidio
Giulio Brogi
Maestro del Cinema
Isabella Ferrari
Orietta
Roberto Herlitzka
Cardinal Bellucci
Annaluisa Capasa
Elisa De Santis
Ivan Franěk
Ron Sweet
Giovanna Vignola
Dadina
Paolo Mazzarelli
Attore Fiction
Manuela Gatti
Donna Puzzole
Elisabetta Ventura
Ballerina Ventilatore
Serena Grandi
Lorena
Margherita Cornali
Donna Adoro
Lillo Petrolo
Lillo De Gregorio
Ludovico Caldarera
Padre Basilicata
Maria Laura Rondanini
Madre Basilicata
Francesca Amodio
Carmelina
Francesca Golia
Suora Botox
Silvia Munguia
Ahé
Stefania Barca
Donna Botox
Gabriella Belisario
Ragazza Botox
Melania Fiore
Infermiera Pos
Daniele Pilli
Prete Funerale
Massimo Santangelo
Autista Pullman
Giorgia Ferrero
Ammiratrice Jep
Alessia Bellotto
Ammiratrice Jep
Giulia Maulucci
Ammiratrice Jep
Caterina Scalaprice
Ammiratrice Jep
Maria Lovetti
Contessa Festa
Natalia De Maria
Cubista Festa Jep
Severino Cesari
Sebastiano Paf
Agata Malyszko
Polina
Cristina Aubry
Dadina (voice)
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Ardant (uncredited)
Giulio Brogi
Master of Cinema (uncredited)
Stefano Fregni
Crazy Man at Park (uncredited)
Gianpiero Cognoli
DIA Agent (uncredited)
Yohana Allen
Party Guest (uncredited)
Mirko Frezza
Party Guest (uncredited)
Piero Gimondo
Party Guest (uncredited)
Leo Mantovani
Party Guest (uncredited)
Giulia Rinallo
Party Guest (uncredited)
Paolo Sorrentino
Comparsa
Original Soundtrack
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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 world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don't deal with what lies beyond. …
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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, women and song along the way and many of his friends are every bit as profligate and vacuous as himself…
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