Friday, 29 January 2016

Spiritual child of Fellini

The Great Beauty (2013)

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino this film stars Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli and Carlo Buccirosso. Following his 65th birthday an Italian writer that lives in Rome reflects on his life and the people he spends his time with.

In the tradition of Fellini this is a slightly dreamy meditation on Rome's cultural elite and their empty, hedonistic and self absorbed life style. Our protagonist floats through a world now seemingly filled with death as his own mortality starts to stare him in the face. I loved the direction and editing of this film which has a slightly ethereal quality to it.


5/5

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