![The Great Beauty](https://images.eu-west-1.prod.magine.com/i/mseven/v/946b50f3-5c8d-47e4-ba12-2c1d59f984a9.jpg?width=1440&height=750)
The Great Beauty
- Paolo Sorrentino
- 2013
- 2h 21m
- Italy, France
Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar fair and square for his Felliniesque tribute to the Eternal City, a dionysian cinematic ride concealing grief and emptiness behind its gorgeous imagery, transforming existential pain into a never-ending party.
Synopsis
Rome in the summer. Tourists flock to Janiculum Hill. A charming -despite first signs of aging- man, enjoys the city’s social life. He attends dinners and parties, where his dazzling presence is always welcomed. As a young journalist, he wrote a novel that procured him a literary prize and the reputation of a repressed artist. He throws a roof party at his apartment, which has a view of the Colosseum, where "The Human System" (his novel’s title), is exposed and an empty farce is taking place.
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Oscar Best Foreign Language Film
Oscars
2014