The Great Beauty

Paolo Sorrentino · 2013 CE · Film · Italian · Contemporary

On the night of his sixty-fifth birthday, a Roman journalist who wrote one admired novel forty years ago and has since made a career of parties learns that the woman he loved as a boy has died, and her husband has found her diaries. He walks the city he has spent his life failing to write about. Sorrentino answering Fellini out loud.

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