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The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported a 93% approval rating with a [[Weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] rating of 7.8/10 based on 46 reviews and certfing it "fresh".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher = [[Warner Bros.]] | title=''The Great Beauty'' (2013)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_great_beauty/|accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> The film holds a score of 85/100 on [[Metacritic]] based on 9 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim."<ref>{{cite web | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-great-beauty|title=''The Great Beauty''|accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref>
The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported a 93% approval rating with a [[Weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] rating of 7.8/10 based on 46 reviews and certfing it "fresh".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher = [[Warner Bros.]] | title=''The Great Beauty'' (2013)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_great_beauty/|accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> The film holds a score of 85/100 on [[Metacritic]] based on 9 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim."<ref>{{cite web | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] | url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-great-beauty|title=''The Great Beauty''|accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref>


[[Robbie Collin]] at ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' awarded Sorrentino's film the maximum five stars and described it as "a shimmering coup de cinema". He likened it to [[Roberto Rossellini]]'s ''[[Rome, Open City]]'' and [[Federico Fellini]]'s ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' in its ambition to record a period of Roman history on film. "Rossellini covered the Nazi occupation of 1944; Fellini the seductive, empty hedonism of the years that followed. Sorrentino's plan is to do the same for the [[Silvio Berlusconi|Berlusconi]] era," he wrote.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/10072554/Cannes-2013-The-Great-Beauty-review.html | title=''The Great Beauty'', review | first=Robbie | last=Collins | authorlink=Robbie Collin | newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]] | location=London | date=22 May 2013 | accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Deborah Young of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' stated "Sorrentino's vision of moral chaos and disorder, spiritual and emotional emptiness at this moment in time is even darker than Fellini's (though [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[La terrazza|The Terrace]]'' certainly comes in somewhere)."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/great-beauty-cannes-review-526135 | title=''The Great Beauty'': Cannes Review | first=Deborah | last=Young | newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] | date=21 May 2013 | accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Critics have also identified other purposefully explicit film homages: to ''[[Roma (1972 film)|Roma]]'', ''[[8½]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.swide.com/art-culture/movies/paolo-sorrentino-the-great-beauty-review-cannes-2013/2013/5/21 | title=''The Great Beauty'': Sorrentino's Masterpiece | first=Federico | last=Boni | work=swide.com |date=21 May 2013 |accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="dailymail" >{{cite web | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2412886/The-Great-Beauty-film-images-Rome-Italy-story.html | title=''The Great Beauty'' of this film is the images of Rome and Italy, not the story | first=Chris | last=Tookey | work=[[Mail Online]] | publisher=[[Daily Mail and General Trust]] | location=London | date=5 September 2013 |accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref> Scola's ''[[Splendor (1989 film)|Splendor]]'',<ref name="dailymail" /> [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s ''[[La Notte|La notte]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-the-great-beauty-1200484710/ | title=Cannes Film Review: ''The Great Beauty'' | first=Jay | last=Weissberg | newspaper=Variety | publisher=Penske Media Corporation | date=20 May 2013 | accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref> In a negative review for the ''[[Financial Times]]'', Antonia Quirke complained "an overtly grotesque way that suggests ''[[Fellini's Casanova]]'' or ''[[City of Women]]'' but feels a lot more like [[Baz Luhrmann]]."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/414f40aa-1611-11e3-a57d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Flife-arts_film-television%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2e2UEqlCl | title=Film reviews: ''About Time'', ''Museum Hours'', ''Ain't Them Bodies Saints'', ''The Great Beauty'' | first=Antonia | last=Quirke | newspaper=[[Financial Times]] | location=London | date=5 September 2013 |accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Spanish film director [[Pedro Almodóvar]] named the film as one of the twelve best films of 2013, and placed it at the second place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/pedro-almodovars-top-12-films-of-2013-includes-blue-is-warmest-color-mud-act-of-killing-more-20131211 |title=Pedro Almodovar's Top 12 Films Of 2013 Includes 'Blue Is Warmest Color,' 'Mud,' 'Act Of Killing'& More |date=11 December 2013|accessdate=11 December 2013|work=Indiewire}}</ref>
[[Robbie Collin]] at ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' awarded Sorrentino's film the maximum five stars and described it as "a shimmering coup de cinema". He likened it to [[Roberto Rossellini]]'s ''[[Rome, Open City]]'' and [[Federico Fellini]]'s ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' in its ambition to record a period of Roman history on film. "Rossellini covered the Nazi occupation of 1944; Fellini the seductive, empty hedonism of the years that followed. Sorrentino's plan is to do the same for the [[Silvio Berlusconi|Berlusconi]] era," he wrote.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/10072554/Cannes-2013-The-Great-Beauty-review.html | title=''The Great Beauty'', review | first=Robbie | last=Collins | authorlink=Robbie Collin | newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]] | location=London | date=22 May 2013 | accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Deborah Young of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' stated "Sorrentino's vision of moral chaos and disorder, spiritual and emotional emptiness at this moment in time is even darker than Fellini's (though [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[La terrazza|The Terrace]]'' certainly comes in somewhere)."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/great-beauty-cannes-review-526135 | title=''The Great Beauty'': Cannes Review | first=Deborah | last=Young | newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] | date=21 May 2013 | accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Critics have also identified other purposefully explicit film homages: to ''[[Roma (1972 film)|Roma]]'', ''[[8½]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.swide.com/art-culture/movies/paolo-sorrentino-the-great-beauty-review-cannes-2013/2013/5/21 | title=''The Great Beauty'': Sorrentino's Masterpiece | first=Federico | last=Boni | work=swide.com |date=21 May 2013 |accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="dailymail" >{{cite web | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2412886/The-Great-Beauty-film-images-Rome-Italy-story.html | title=''The Great Beauty'' of this film is the images of Rome and Italy, not the story | first=Chris | last=Tookey | work=[[Mail Online]] | publisher=[[Daily Mail and General Trust]] | location=London | date=5 September 2013 |accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref> Scola's ''[[Splendor (1989 film)|Splendor]]'',<ref name="dailymail" /> [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s ''[[La Notte|La notte]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-the-great-beauty-1200484710/ | title=Cannes Film Review: ''The Great Beauty'' | first=Jay | last=Weissberg | newspaper=Variety | publisher=Penske Media Corporation | date=20 May 2013 | accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref> In a negative review for the ''[[Financial Times]]'', Antonia Quirke complained "an overtly grotesque way that suggests ''[[Fellini's Casanova]]'' or ''[[City of Women]]'' but feels a lot more like [[Baz Luhrmann]]."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/414f40aa-1611-11e3-a57d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Flife-arts_film-television%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz2e2UEqlCl | title=Film reviews: ''About Time'', ''Museum Hours'', ''Ain't Them Bodies Saints'', ''The Great Beauty'' | first=Antonia | last=Quirke | newspaper=[[Financial Times]] | location=London | date=5 September 2013 |accessdate=1 November 2013}}</ref> Spanish film director [[Pedro Almodóvar]] named the film as one of the twelve best films of 2013, and placed it at the second place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/pedro-almodovars-top-12-films-of-2013-includes-blue-is-warmest-color-mud-act-of-killing-more-20131211 |title=Pedro Almodovar's Top 12 Films Of 2013 Includes 'Blue Is Warmest Color,' 'Mud,' 'Act Of Killing'& More |date=11 December 2013|accessdate=11 December 2013|work=Indiewire}}</ref>

===Film critic top lists===
Various critics have named the film as one of the best of 2013.
* 1st: ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out London]]''{{-'}}s 10 Best films of 2013<ref>http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-10-best-films-of-2013</ref>
* 1st: [[Robbie Collin]], ''[[Telegraph Media Group|The Telegraph]]''<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10524901/Film-the-best-and-worst-of-2013.html</ref>
* 2nd: [[Richard Corliss]], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''<ref>http://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-2/media_e_tv/su-time-un-critico-serio-e-meticoloso-come-richard-corliss-fa-lelenco-dei-10-67964.htm/</ref>
* 3rd: Chris Vognar, ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''<ref name="Vognar">{{Cite web|url=http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/12/gravity-is-chris-vognars-no-1-movie-of-the-year-what-else-made-the-top-10.html/ |title=Gravity is Chris Vognar’s No. 1 movie of the year. What else made the Top 10? |accessdate=20 December 2013 |work=Dallas Morning News}}</ref>
* 4th: ''[[Sight & Sound]]''<ref>http://variety.com/2013/film/news/sight-sound-names-act-of-killing-top-film-of-2013-1200900132/</ref>
* 6th: Jake Coyle, [[Associated Press]]<ref name="Coyle">{{Cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/ap-top-10-2013-movies-this-is-the-end-mud_n_4453187.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment |title=AP's Top 10 2013 Movies Include 'This Is The End,' 'Mud' |accessdate=20 December 2013 |work=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref>
* 7th: [[Stephen Holden]], ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/movies/stephen-holdens-top-films-of-2013.html?_r=1&</ref>
* 8th: Simon Abrams & Alan Scherstuhl, ''[[The Village Voice]]''<ref>http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/view/critics/Simon+Abrams/2013/</ref><ref>http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/view/critics/Alan+Scherstuhl/2013/</ref>
* 9th: Robert Gifford, ''[[The Diamondback]]''<ref name="Gifford">{{Cite web|url=http://www.diamondbackonline.com/diversions/article_2f8f38c2-6506-11e3-a824-001a4bcf6878.html |title=The Best Movies of 2013 |accessdate=20 December 2013 |work=The Diamondback}}</ref>
* 9th: ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''{{-'}}s 50 Best Films Of 2013 <ref>http://www.empireonline.com/features/films-of-the-year-2013/p6</ref>
* Best films of 2013: [[Peter Bradshaw]], ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/dec/06/peter-bradshaws-favourite-films-2013-braddies</ref>
* Best Film of 2013: Justin Chang, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''<ref>http://variety.com/2013/film/columns/scott-foundas-top-10-films-of-2013-1200922190/</ref><ref>http://variety.com/2013/film/columns/justin-changs-top-10-films-of-2013-1200946674/</ref>


==Accolades==
==Accolades==

Revision as of 21:45, 29 December 2013

The Great Beauty
Directed byPaolo Sorrentino
Written byPaolo Sorrentino
Umberto Contarello
Produced byNicola Giuliano
Francesca Cima
Fabio Conversi
CinematographyLuca Bigazzi
Edited byCristiano Travaglioli
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Production
companies
Medusa Film
Indigo Film
Distributed byMedusa Film (Italy)
Pathé (France)
Release date
  • 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21)[1]
Running time
142 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian
Budget9,200,000 €
Box office$13,967,613[2]

The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza) is a 2013 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is a co-production between the Italian Medusa Film and Indigo Film and the French Babe Films, with support from Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Pathé. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012.[3][4] It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or.[5] It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival[6] and at the 2013 Reykjavik European Film Festival. The film has been selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[7] making the January shortlist.[8]

Plot

The film opens with a quote from Céline's Journey to the End of the Night: “To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.”[9] It is about an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. After his 65th birthday party, where he is feted at his plush apartment overlooking the Coliseum, he walks through the ruins and city streets, encountering the various characters, reflecting on his life, his first love, and sense of unfulfillment.[10][11][12]

Cast

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 93% approval rating with a weighted average rating of 7.8/10 based on 46 reviews and certfing it "fresh".[13] The film holds a score of 85/100 on Metacritic based on 9 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim."[14]

Robbie Collin at The Daily Telegraph awarded Sorrentino's film the maximum five stars and described it as "a shimmering coup de cinema". He likened it to Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita in its ambition to record a period of Roman history on film. "Rossellini covered the Nazi occupation of 1944; Fellini the seductive, empty hedonism of the years that followed. Sorrentino's plan is to do the same for the Berlusconi era," he wrote.[15] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter stated "Sorrentino's vision of moral chaos and disorder, spiritual and emotional emptiness at this moment in time is even darker than Fellini's (though Ettore Scola's The Terrace certainly comes in somewhere)."[16] Critics have also identified other purposefully explicit film homages: to Roma, 8½,[17][18] Scola's Splendor,[18] Michelangelo Antonioni's La notte.[19] In a negative review for the Financial Times, Antonia Quirke complained "an overtly grotesque way that suggests Fellini's Casanova or City of Women but feels a lot more like Baz Luhrmann."[20] Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar named the film as one of the twelve best films of 2013, and placed it at the second place.[21]

Film critic top lists

Various critics have named the film as one of the best of 2013.

Accolades

List of Accolades
Award / Film Festival Category Recipient(s) Result
79th New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Runner-up
71st Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Pending
67th Silver Ribbon Awards Best Director Paolo Sorrentino Nominated
Best Producer Nicola Giuliano and Francesca Cima Nominated
Best Screenplay Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Carlo Verdone Won
Best Supporting Actress Sabrina Ferilli Won
Best Cinematography Luca Bigazzi Won
Best Costumes Daniela Ciancio Nominated
Best Sound Emanuele Cecere Won
Best Score Lele Marchintelli Nominated
66th Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Paolo Sorrentino Nominated
60th Belgian Film Critics Association Grand Prix Paolo Sorrentino Pending
53rd Italian Golden Globe Best Director Paolo Sorrentino Nominated
Best Actor Toni Servillo Nominated
Best Cinematography Luca Bigazzi Won
Best Music Lele Marchintelli Nominated
34th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Won
29th Independent Spirit Awards Best Foreign Film Paolo Sorrentino Pending
26th European Film Awards Best Film Paolo Sorrentino Won
Best Director Paolo Sorrentino Won
Best Actor Toni Servillo Won
Best Screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello Nominated
Best Editor Cristiano Travaglioli Won
20th Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Nominated
19th Critics' Choice Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Pending
18th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Nominated
18th Satellite Awards Best Foreign Language Film Paolo Sorrentino Pending
17th Hollywood Film Awards Best International Film Paolo Sorrentino Won
Best Independent Film Paolo Sorrentino Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello Won
Best Actor Toni Servillo Nominated
Breakout Performance Toni Servillo Nominated
17th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival[36] Grand Prix Paolo Sorrentino Won
Jury Prix Luca Bigazzi Won
16th British Independent Film Awards Best Foreign Independent Film Paolo Sorrentino Nominated

References

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  2. ^ http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/the-great-beauty-2013
  3. ^ De Marco, Camillo (18 September 2012). "La grande bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino sold in six countries". cineuropa.org. Cineuropa. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  4. ^ "The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)". Screenbase. Screen International. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes. Official Selection 2013: In Competition". Cannes. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Italy Picks Sorrentino's "Beauty" As Its Oscar Contender". Variety. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  8. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". Oscars. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  9. ^ De Marco, Camillo (21 May 2013). "The Great Beauty: a journey to the end of the night". Cineuropa. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  10. ^ Simek, Peter (12 December 2013). "Why The Great Beauty Is One of the Best Films You'll See All Year". D Magazine. Front Row (blog). Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  11. ^ Collin, Robbie (20 December 2013). "Film review of the year 2013: 'This was the greatest year of cinema since 1999'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  12. ^ Turan, Kenneth (21 November 2013). "Review: 'The Great Beauty' intoxicates with masterful Toni Servillo". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  13. ^ "The Great Beauty (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Warner Bros. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  14. ^ "The Great Beauty". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
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  17. ^ Boni, Federico (21 May 2013). "The Great Beauty: Sorrentino's Masterpiece". swide.com. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  18. ^ a b Tookey, Chris (5 September 2013). "The Great Beauty of this film is the images of Rome and Italy, not the story". Mail Online. London: Daily Mail and General Trust. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  19. ^ Weissberg, Jay (20 May 2013). "Cannes Film Review: The Great Beauty". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  20. ^ Quirke, Antonia (5 September 2013). "Film reviews: About Time, Museum Hours, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Great Beauty". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  21. ^ "Pedro Almodovar's Top 12 Films Of 2013 Includes 'Blue Is Warmest Color,' 'Mud,' 'Act Of Killing'& More". Indiewire. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
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  25. ^ "Gravity is Chris Vognar's No. 1 movie of the year. What else made the Top 10?". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  26. ^ http://variety.com/2013/film/news/sight-sound-names-act-of-killing-top-film-of-2013-1200900132/
  27. ^ "AP's Top 10 2013 Movies Include 'This Is The End,' 'Mud'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
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  30. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/view/critics/Alan+Scherstuhl/2013/
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  36. ^ http://2013.poff.ee/est/festival/uudised.n/selgusid-17-poeffi-auhinnasaajad
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