The Great Beauty (2013)

Drama Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
← Inspired by 1 films

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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Films that influenced The Great Beauty

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  1. La Dolce Vita (1960)
    "Critics universally trace The Great Beauty to La Dolce Vita — both films depict an aging journalist drifting as a flâneur through Rome's decadent social rituals. Sorrentino has publicly distanced his film from being a direct homage, but acknowledges the shared thematic territory (the attraction of emptiness, the sacred displaced into the secular)." source

The Great Beauty (2013), directed by Paolo Sorrentino, was inspired by 1 earlier film — including La Dolce Vita. Check out the citations below.