{"id":1321,"date":"2013-11-25T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2014-06-26T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T01:05:56","slug":"brain-food-la-grande-bellezza-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Brain food : La Grande Bellezza film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the stunning La Grande Bellezza , or The Great Beauty. This is Paolo Sorrentino&#8217;s latest film , an introspective movie about love and loss , power and prestige and the relevance of self .<\/p>\n<p>I am definitely going back to see it again because it is quite overwhelming and so rich in details and I wanted it to never end .<\/p>\n<p>This is what <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/sep\/05\/le-grande-bellezza-great-beauty-review\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a> <\/span>says :<\/p>\n<p><em>Paolo Sorrentino&#8217;s La Grande Bellezza is a compelling tragicomedy of Italy&#8217;s leisured classes in the tradition of Antonioni&#8217;s La Notte or Fellini&#8217;s La Dolce Vita. It is a pure sensual overload of richness and strangeness and sadness, a film sometimes on the point of swooning with dissolute languour, savouring its own ennui like a truffle. But more often it&#8217;s defiantly rocking out, keeping the party going as the night sky pales, with all the vigour of well-preserved, middle-aged rich people who can do hedonism better than the young. It is set in Rome, populated by the formerly beautiful and the currently damned, and featuring someone who doesn&#8217;t quite fall into either category.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Servillo plays bon vivant socialite Jep Gambardella, a\u00a0Rome playboy who wrote a fine novel in his youth but has since devoted himself to immaculate indolence. By day he rests and reads a little; by night he comes alive, a vampire in a linen suit, throwing great raves for primped and preened pals in his penthouse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Magnificent !<\/p>\n<p>And a big shout out to the brilliant programming of the <a href=\"http:\/\/angelikafilmcenter.com\">Angelika Film Center in New York<\/a> , one of those unique independent movie houses where you go to knowing that you will always find something smart and special to watch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-25-at-5.02.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323\" src=\"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-25-at-5.02.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-25-at-5.02.42-PM.png 784w, https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-25-at-5.02.42-PM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-25-at-5.02.42-PM-280x186.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the stunning La Grande Bellezza , or The Great Beauty. 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