Opening in New York and L.A. in November.

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“Sometimes, movies need to move. Sorrentino’s cinema, with its rapturous camera moves, its bursts of music, and its almost naïve belief that the screen can still evoke bold emotions, is the antidote to the Cinema of Lack.”

—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

Paolo Sorrentino Biography

Born in Naples in 1970, Paolo Sorrentino is one of Italian cinema’s most distinctive and stylish filmmakers. In 1998 his short film Love has no boundaries established a relationship with Indigo Films, who have produced all of his films to date. In 2001, his first feature, the dramatic comedy One Man Up, won the Silver Ribbon for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. This film also marked his first collaboration with favorite actor Toni Servillo. The Consequences of Love (2004), Sorrentino’s second film, premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won 5 David di Donatello Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Cinematography. The film Il Divo (2008), a portrait of the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury Prize at Cannes and featured a stunning performance by Toni Servillo. Following This Must Be the Place (2011), his first film to be shot in America, Sorrentino returned to his home country for the acclaimed The Great Beauty (2013).

“The key to this pre-eminent Italian actor of the age has to be his hypnotic unknowability.”

—The Guardian

Toni Servillo Biography

Italian Vogue has called Toni Servillo the “most versatile Italian actor in the history of Italian cinema,” and yet he did not star in a film until he was over the age of 40. Servillo was born in Afragola, Campania in 1959, and knew at a young age that he wanted to be an actor. In 1977 he founded the Teatro Studio di Caserta, and spent the next three decades working with dozens of renowned companies and directors. His breakout film role was in Paolo Sorrentino’s One Man Up, which garnered him several nominations in Italy, followed by The Consequences of Love and Il Divo. In 2008 he won the award for Best Actor at the European Film Awards for his roles in both Gomorrah and Il Divo. Servillo continues to work in the theater and runs the Teatri Uniti in Naples.

Cast

Toni Servillo as Jep Gambardella
Carlo Verdone as Romano
Sabrina Ferilli as Ramona
Carlo Buccirosso as Lello Cava
Iaia Forte as Trumeau
Pamela Villoresi as Viola
Galatea Ranzi as Stefania
With Massimo De Francovich as Egidio
With Roberto Herlitzka as Cardinal Bellucci
And with Isabella Ferrari as Orietta

Crew

A film by Paolo Sorrentino
Written by Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
Co-producers Fabio Conversi And Jérôme Seydoux
Associate producers Carlotta Calori, Guendalina Ponti
Associate producers Romain Le Grand, Vivien Aslanian, Muriel Sauzay
Line producer Viola Prestieri
Cinematography Luca Bigazi
Editing Cristiano Travaglioli
Music Lele Marchiteli
Production Indigo Film
Co-production Babe Films, Pathé Production, France 2 Cinéma
With the collaboration of Medusa Film

A French-Italian coproduction developed with the support of the Media Programme of the European Union

“An outlandishly entertaining hallucination”
—Mahnola Dargis, The New York Times

“The movie is a masterpiece, a grand swooning epic, lush to the point of insanity, Fellini turned up to 11.“
—Catherine Shoard, The Guardian UK

“A densely packed, often astonishing cinematic feast that honors Rome in all its splendor and superficiality.”
—Jay Weissberg, Variety

“A gorgeous movie, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.“
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“A spiritual apocalypse…One of the most casually eye-popping pieces of cinematic real-estate porn I have ever seen”
—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“A gushing cornucopia” “An exhilarating, exuberant yet elegiac survey of the fabulously tawdry lives of Rome’s filthy rich and almost-famous.”
—N.B., The Economist

“A Technicolor La Dolce Vita for the Berlusconi era”
—Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

“A love letter to Rome” “Paolo Sorrentino is a master of cinematic imagery” -Chris Tookey, The Daily Mail

“Ravishingly 21st-century La Dolce Vita. . . Sorrentino’s heady, vivid yet wearily melancholic musing on midlife crisis submerges you in sumptuousness until you emerge, blinking, as if from some impossibly glamorous party.”
—Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Andrew Williams, Metro UK

“The Great Beauty is a shimmering coup de cinema to make your heart burst, your mind swim and your soul roar. The soundtrack features some of the most stirring devotional music ever composed.”
—Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“Shot in gorgeous Caravaggio tones by Luca Bigazzi, The Great Beauty is de luxe filmmaking. It is a great city movie.”
—The Independent

“Rapturously received at Cannes, this was Sorrentino’s fifth Palme d’Or nomination”
—Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire

Toni Servillo

Toni Servillo

Toni Servillo

Galatea Ranzi, Toni Servillo

Toni Servillo

Roberto Herlitzka,

Sabrina Ferilli

Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli

Toni Servillo

Paulo Sorrentino

Like many of Paolo Sorrentino’s films, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) features a creative collision of classical and party music. The soundtrack is already a hit in Europe and will be available in the US soon.

Music from the film

I Lie – Torino Ensemble
World to Come IV – Maya Beiser
My Heart’s is in the Highlands – Else Torp & Christopher Bowers Broadbent
Time – Lele Marchitelli
The Beatitudes – Kronos Quartet
Dies Irae – Zbigniew Preisner
The Lamb – John Tavener
Symphony in C major: II. Andante (Adagio) – Georges Bizet
River Flows – Lele Marchitellu
Symphony No.3: III. Lento (Cantabile semplice) – Henryk Gorecki & Dawn Upshaw
Beata Viscera – Vox Clamantis
Far L’Amore (Club Mix) – Bob Sinclar & Raffaella Carra
More Than Scarlet – Decoder Ring
Take My Breathe Away – Gui Boratto
Brain Waves – Lele Marchitelli
Everything Trying – Damien Jurado
Parade – Tape
Color My World – Lele Marchitelli
Forever – Antonello Venditti
Surge Of Excitement – Lele Marchitelli
Water From The Same Source – Rachel’s
Settembre Non Comincia – Lele Marchitelli
Ti Ruberò – Monica Cetti
Trumeau – Lele Marchitelli
Que No Se Acabe El Mambo – La Banda Gorda
We No Speak Americano – Studio Allstars
Discoteca – Exchpoture