La Grande Belleza | 2013 | Italy | Paolo Sorrentino
7.6 / 10
"Mama, quando ti vedo arrossisco."
"Mom, when I see you I blush."
This is one of those films that when I watched it didn't blow my mind, but as the days passed by it started growing on me.
The beginning felt to me like a Fellini's Dolce Vita remake but not as good. After all how could it be?
La Grande Bellezza is a portrait of a dull intellectual high society seen by an aging Roman bon vivant: Jep Gambardella.Jep wrote a masterpiece 40 years ago and has been living off its success since then. He
has been living the lavish life of Rome, surrounded by pretentious people with pointless opinions.
The film has little to no substance, same has Jep's life. Soon we realize that he is on the pursuit of a great beauty that he most likely already found at the age of 18. We don't understand what he's looking for but we know what he'll not have.
The film is full of hedonism, frivolity, hypocrisy, shallowness and absurdity. The last one was the cherry of the film together with it's cinematography, which is excellent. This is a visual film with some good acting. If you are not looking for more than that you'll be fine. Just bare in mind that instead of Anita Ekberg sensually bathing in Fontana di Trevi, you'll find a fat man washing in a fountain.
" The trains at our parties are the best ones in Rome.
You think so?
I do. They're the best because they go nowhere."
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