Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome’s decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend’s wife – a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old – his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes…
A dazzling, dizzying and entrancing cinematic tour-de-force, built around a stunning performance by Toni Servillo (Il Divo, Gomorrah), The Great Beauty is a sumptuously shot satire on Berlusconi’s Italy that has drawn comparisons with Italian classics such as La Dolce Vita and La Notte.
BAFTA 2014 NOMINATED IN THE FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CATEGORY. OUT ON DVD & BLU RAY 13th JANUARY.
