The Great Beauty (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray + DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 25, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Toni Servillo | |
Performer: | Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso & Iaia Forte | |
Directed by | Paolo Sorrentino | |
Screenplay by | Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello | |
Composition by | Lele Marchitelli | |
Director of Photography: | Luca Bigazzi |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
A wander through visceral vignettes of excess with a tender human heart.
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One Room With A View
Rating: 4/5 --
A thesis on opulence and how Rome has sated the aesthete sensibility of its main character.
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Patrick Nabarro
The Great Beauty is about a bored, jaded man but doesn't leave its audience bored or jaded which is itself an achievement.
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Bitch Flicks
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Great Beauty is an utterly ravishing portrait of listless luxuriance, a fantasy of decadent wealth and beauty that evokes Fellini's La Dolce Vita by way of Baz Luhrmann.
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Globe and Mail
Jep is too insightful an observer of humanity’s flaws, and too attuned to flashes of beauty in lives unlike the one he has chosen, to confine himself to ephemeral indulgences. And through his deeply humane yearning the film ascends to greater heights.
The Atlantic
Rating: A- --
All things considered, you'd be hard pressed to find a more stunning, thoughtful, honest and stirring film than The Great Beauty.
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A riotous film that finds depth, clarity and refreshment in even the shallowest of pools.
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Toronto Star
Product Description:
Italy's official submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, director Paolo Sorrentino's THE GREAT BEAUTY tells the story of an aging Roman journalist who enjoys a life of hedonism and excess in the upper-echelons of the Italian capital's social circles, but whose 65th birthday prompts a sobering bout of self-reflection. When Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) came to Rome at the age of 26, he was quickly swept-up into the city's vibrant nightlife. Following the success of his first and only novel, rising journalist Gambardella became a literary icon. Years later, Gambardella enjoys a life of privilege and unbridled excess; he's the life of every party, and rarely a night goes by that he isn't holding court in one of the city's hottest clubs. Things couldn't get much better until, on the day he turns 65, Gambardella is reminded of a chapter from his past that gives him a striking new perspective on the magnificent city that he has come to call home. Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, and Carlo Buccirosso co-star.
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