This movie changed my life, in a way that no other movie did. Watched it in 2014 for the first time, just after it won an Oscar and it inspired me to go Italy, which I did that same year. Italy inspired me to travel, inspired my art and what I'm doing these days. The last 6 years has been the best time of my life and I will never forget what this movie meant and still means for me. Every once in a while I just put it on and immerse myself in it :)
I thought this movie was going to be very pretentious, but for some reason i went to see it in the theaters. By the end I was absolutely blown away. There's a lot of philosophy and meaning behind it all. It's about growing older and living new experiences, questioning morality and the paths we take, and finding that happiness and love comes in short spurts of moments always escaping us, we tend to carry them as memories that can never be relived again. It was so odd, as if something wanted me to see this movie and I'm glad i found it.
I saw this in 2013 and fell in love .. I bought the DVD as soon as I could..I am 54 and have seen many foreign films.. This film has moved me as no other and I dont even know why ..I just adore it..
Last night I watched this movie and it is truly amazing. The way he stands on beach as an old man and thinking about his first love is heartbreaking, especially because she died. It can happen to all of us. When we are old and alone and when our partner or first love dies we can go to places where we meet or first kiss and where we create a great memories, and now we are here alone standing on this place without them, after all these years or lifetime. I will never be the same after this movie.
I watched this film last week. I cannot stop thinking about it. I would like to meet Paolo (the director) and ask him what is exactly the "trick" Jepp mentions in the last scene. I think the "trick" and the great beauty is that Jepp has faith in life again, like believing there is a meaning (maybe God) despite all the nonsense he lived in the mundane life of Rome, and the fact he let the love of his life to slip away. The small moments of beauty in his life where hints for his new outlook of life, maybe a spiritual outlook. That "faith" gives him the creativity to start writting again, after so many years. But I don't know, this films still intrigues me. Cheers
This movie helped me to get trough some of the toughest times in my life. I was very depressed, unhappy with my life and suicidal. I remember seeing it on Netflix and not knowing what it was...After I finished I was sitting therein tears for almost an hour trying to process what I just watched. The fact it is a love letter to Rome, a city I visited often and absolutely adore is just a little bit of what it is about. forgiveness, regret, acceptance, life , love, loss...This is masterpiece that I will never forget.
The most beautiful movie I have ever seen so far. I don`t think Hollywood could ever make something this poetic and visually stunning. It`s almost like a painting - you can just watch it and enjoy it for the visuals and then, after a few times, once you get bored, you can get into it philosophically and get something out of it, as beautiful and stunning as the visual. This is what cinema should be all about.
I have to say that after watching this film, I knew I could not absorb everything on the first viewing, I wasn't sure exactly what I had watched, but I knew that it was a masterpiece. Yes, this won the Oscar and had buzz around it in 2013, but I fear this has quickly faded into the background when it should be recognized as one of the greatest films so far this century.
I'm italian and sorry if i haven't a good english. I think that the sense of the film is the difficulty for the human to find the great beauty. The great beauty is a spiritual-emotion thing, is the human trascendence, is the surprise for everything. There are many scenes where Jep, only for a second, watches the great beauty (The children that play with the sister, the bird in the sky, the giraffe) but immediatley he loses it for the confusion of his life. In the end of the film the symbol of great beauty isn't the girl, but the stairs (with the lighthouse) that stay behind the girl. In fact at the same time we watch the sister in the stairs very tired. The sense is the real nature of life, the difficulty and then the spiritual sense of an immensity, a great immensity that stay everything. The work of a writer is caught this immensity.
Thank you for your description. I agree. I saw this film in a nearly empty theater on the last night of its run by myself. I thought it was wonderful... for all the reasons you gave.
+fac6mati It's funny how, while the girl undressed, I was more intrigued by the light reflecting on the rocks than trying to get a glimpse at her breasts. There is beauty in the circumstances of how things come together, not the things themselves. Thanks for making me understand, ciao :)
Hi friend. Your English is good. Can you help me find an Italian film? It's about a little girl and I think her grandfather, each trying to deal with a death in the family. Thank you :)
All songs (like this so that people could see it) 0:06 Arvo Pärt - My Heart's in the Highlands 0:45 Bob Sinclar & Rafaella Carra - A Far L'Amore Comincia Tu 1:10 John Tavener - The Lamb I must say that this is a very high quality trailer, very classy and stylish.
I always tear up when "The Lamb" cuts in. So lovely. Three amazing songs, though, if I'm being quite honest. Pärt and Tavener are titans of sacred choral.
well this guy IS italian... I am italian too and I can still hear some flows in his pronunciation cause the true italian comes from Florence not from Rome..
@@francescagiacomelli5950 L'influsso del fiorentino/toscano sull'italiano è indubbio a livello storico, tuttavia far coincidere lo standard attuale (soprattutto in termini di pronuncia) con il fiorentino mi sembra un po' azzardato.
I'm Italian and I read comments such as: "Gatsby Italian", "movies shit" ... etc ... I know why a great nation like America (which I respect), at least 70% of the people are ignorant in film and art? Continue to look at you fast and furious, braveheart and gladiator ...
Wow. Gladiator is one of the best movies kid. I'm European but what I don't like about our cinema is it's profanity, brutality, sexism and etc. "The Great Beauty" is all that I don't like. It doesn't have much of a meaning either. There's no deep meaning behind the movie. Just this. And that. Nothing more. I'd watch "V for Vendetta" instead.
IFrozenFireI What should I answer a person who watches the movie "playful" and says that the gladiator is one of the best movies? it is obvious that you do not understand the concept of this film.
Easley Pernigotto Dude. This movie is about life. But it's about the absolute brutal part of life. I, in fact hate everything about this movie. And there's nothing to understand about this movie. It's just the Great Beauty, nothing more, nothing less. While Gladiator is just a spectacle with great ending and deep meaning attached to the movie, this one is just... So shallow.
That's the point in life. You have to choice. You can be like him. He's the king.but when you see him in that party what do you see? Nothing. An old man that lives on his memories. He doesn't want to be like this because his alone. He's like a poet. He understand the meaning of life when its too late. Music changes an also emotions. The best part of you're life its when you're young because you can decide. When you're old to can't do nothing, like a ship in a storm. Who you're gonna be? You don't know. That's why life sucks and at the same time is gorgeous. That's the great beauty. You.
But also it is never too late to change. I did not feel that the message is so pessimistic about old age. Even if you live your life participating in mindless partying and so forth, it's still an improvement to take the risk and start living the way you actually want. Jep Gambardella started writing again, and as well can we start chasing our dreams again, whenever we are ready. The Great Beauty is made of small everyday things. After all, it's all a trick ;)
I’m considerably late with my review but only because I missed writing one when I saw the film when it first came out. First of all, this film is art, it’s not to be consumed like Jep consumes his parties, his friends and, of course, alcohol. Art is when it forces you to take a new look at certain things in your life, re-evaluate your dear held beliefs. What is beauty? What is the essence of life? There’s no definitive answer to it and answers can change over time. Once it was the high life, the appeal of it, the upbeat rhythm of it, the beauty on the surface but one can’t be 26 forever. No one will be as beautiful at 60 as one was at 26 and yet, there can be beauty still. In oneself in the intangible, in the small things. In a life experience, in a smell, in a view. Something that needs to be expressed and by expressing it creates a different kind of beauty. Jep is at an inflection point in his life. He can’t go on as he used to but he also can’t let go what used to define him but doesn’t fulfill him anymore. By observing the details he didn’t care for such a long time provides him with a new sense of purpose. He’s going to write again. He’s going to write his life down but not in a superficial way, not in the way of an account ready to be printed in Vogue. He will find the great beauty in introspection. It is only a fleeting sense throughout the film because it has to be. The entire film is focussed on this particular inflection point where the old life sinks into oblivion and the new life has not yet started . In the end, it is on us to find the Great Beauty within ourselves and the way to achieve that is to do whatever it is you’re passionate about. It was living the high life for Jep and it will be writing about it now. What about you?
I love it how the hollywood generation is confused by this kind of movie, which is telling a story with beautiful cinematography, and gives the viewer the power of imagination and interpretation. No wonder so many people are lost with this trailer, because they lost this powers...
Tracchofyre I agree with a lot of what you said, but in this case the self indulgence is allowed and really vital. Its a film that at one level is all about self indulgence and the chrs who all inhabit such a world. So if you haven't seen this, give in and do. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
You're completely wrong in saying that this - like many other European movies - are made "for directors and film critics instead for the people". Artistic movies are directed primarily to the people, period. Even if the average viewer is not capable to understand what makes a great movie so great, that doesn't mean that he's unable to perceive it as great altogether. Movies like this one are not about a story, and do not contain any philosophical position. Instead, it's just an attempt to channel a sentiment, a feeling - and the "people" are expected to use their intellect to explore those feelings, to understand why they are so powerful, to engage them in a way which is for the most part lost, in our society moving at ever higher speed. Movies like this offer the spectator the possibility to question life altogether, without forcing the audience to swallow the director's own interpretation (in fact, you can interpret The Great Beauty any way you like). Everyone can do that, not just critics. I'm sorry that you find it so 'elitist' and exclusive, I really believe it is not - and I suggest you to give this movie a try, without being so prejudiced against it.
His movie Youth and The Great Beauty are two of the greatest films I've ever seen. They're such beautiful films that make me think about life so deeply and sincerely. Thank you, Sorrentino!
+RoadKillzine A stranger on the internet said so, and The Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards and many professional critics :) If for you, it's not a masterpiece, I wonder what kind of taste you have for movies.
Weird! The first time I watched it. Wasn't sure. Did several rewatch, and... This movie does something to you. Don't know why but felt emotional. Reading the comment below to find I'm not the only one. It's a love letter to Rome, of the nightlife, of art so much art, a love letter to the passage of time, to first love, but so much more. To those who are skeptical, don't be. Simply press play and let yourself be absorb by the story, the images, the beautiful sometime haunting music.
no. i love this movie. however, when i 1st watched i thought the same thing, that is was boring and superficial. but once i did a little reading about how the movie and how it is suppose to be a representation of the past and present of what is happening in rome, the movie took on a whole new meaning for me.
Well, I find three main ideas reflected in the plot - spirituality or just belief, then, the passing of time and, of course, "tabula rasa", pure-sacred versus profane. Every aspect revolves around this. Then there's this soundtrack which on the whole is pretty much reflecting religious themes. I.e. Arvo Part's "My Heart in the Highlands" is a song about longing and nostalgia and the first idea that pops in my mind when I hear Part's name is christianity. Then there are even more obvious aspects, such as the idea of the lamb, which definitely belongs to the "tabula rasa" theme. This one is demonstratively shown via Tavener's "The Lamb". Of course, the lamb is Jep. This one is crucial. Anyway, I am not sure if I prove the whole thing, though to me - it seems pretty much obvious.
Too many dislikes and some really disappointing comments... It seems like romanticism and "humanity" (which is art, in my opinion) is only available to a small number of well educated people... Not trying to offend anyone, but please, try to go further when watching this film, there are many symbolisms and scenes that are pure poetry. This film is a masterpiece, really enjoyable. And no, its not like "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "Great Gatsby"... I kind of liked both of those films but partying and excess do not always have the same meaning, in this film those are the less important parts to take into account (even though partying scenes were greatly done).
Non mi meraviglio di chi critica questo film. Infatti credo che certe persone sono incredibilmente innamorate della mediocrità... Questo film è un CAPOLAVORO
Sono felice del golden globe e della selezione agli Oscar, ma spero comunque di poterlo criticare senza per questo dovermi sentire un mediocre. Il film a tratti è davvero bello, Sorrentino è bravo, e lo sa... a tratti però mi è piaciuto molto meno..
This is honestly one of the best films ever made. Just look on it as sort of a contemporary update on 'La Dolce Vita' - if you've seen that (classic) film you have some idea what to expect.
A cinema master piece. I'm obcessed with it. Whatched many times and still watching. It's marvellous. I live in Brazil, and "Il divo" has not been launched here. I hope that "Loro" will be.
Pay attention Hollywood, this is trailers done well, not like that of yours who shows all the movie. PD: 1:38 Costa Concordia. 1:19 beautiful italian girl.
I realized after i saw the movie, months after my first comment, that the simply put "beautiful italian girl in 1:19" was non other that "The Great Beauty" (La Grande Bellezza) personified, the love and magic that Jep had lost was incarnated in this girl. Now Jep is left with a vacuous and sad life, but i think by the end of the movie is in peace with himself and with the motivation to write again. Stunning cinematography and script. Amazing movie, it touches so many deep places in ones mind and soul.
Klaus141986 I saw the movie and I don't get it. Okay, I see he goes searching for this great beauty in the high class world and finds drugs, sex, and hypocrisy. I don't understand what happened with him and Romana?? Can you explain why it's so great??
"fac6mati" wrote this 3 years ago: "I'm italian and sorry if i haven't a good english. I think that the sense of the film is the difficulty for the human to find the great beauty. The great beauty is a spiritual-emotion thing, is the human trascendence, is the surprise for everything. There are many scenes where Jep, only for a second, watches the great beauty (The children that play with the sister, the bird in the sky, the giraffe) but immediatley he loses it for the confusion of his life. In the end of the film the symbol of great beauty isn't the girl, but the stairs (with the lighthouse) that stay behind the girl. In fact at the same time we watch the sister in the stairs very tired. The sense is the real nature of life, the difficulty and then the spiritual sense of an immensity, a great immensity that stay everything. The work of a writer is caught this immensity. "
Io trovo che molti in Italia abbiano criticato questo film perché (avendo avuto un grande successo) sono stati obbligati a specchiarsi in esso e immagino che i più non abbiano apprezzato il riflesso che vi hanno scorto. Il primo peccato di questo film è di aver avuto successo: in Italia non si perdona mai il successo quando è meritato; il secondo è di essere sincero: quanti ne conosco, anche fra chi non frequenta ambienti mondani, che vivono crogiolandosi in un continuo bagno di menzogne per non doversi confrontare con una mediocrità dalla quale hanno smesso di lottare per emergere? Il terzo è l'affetto e la pietà che Sorrentino ti porta a provare per i personaggi e le loro piccole e grandi miserie: a nessuno piace essere compatito, a maggior ragione se ce n'è motivo. Credo che molti tra quelli che hanno dato giudizi aspri su questo film dovrebbero magari farsi un esame di coscienza, non tanto a beneficio di Sorrentino, che credo di queste opinioni proprio se ne sbatta, quanto proprio per loro stessi.
+Valerio Alberti _Non parlo italiano, quindi ho dovuto utilizzare il traduttore di Google per capire il tuo commento, ma sono pienamente d'accordo. Anche se nella maggior parte dei paesi in cui invidiare la loro gente quando qualcuno ha successo internazionale, è nella natura umana credo. E sì questo film ricorda "La dolce vita", tuttavia Sorrentino merita la gloria, questo è un grande film. Mi dispiace per eventuali errori, si capisce che il mio commento è anche un prodotto di Google Translator_
Bo. descrive una roma e una italia tutta mondanità, feste e cretinaggine. Non mi pare rispecchi la maggior parte dell'italia, delle persone che si svegliano la mattina presto e vanno a lavorare per arrivare alla fine del mese. Certamente c'è anche l'italia dei più fortunati che si può permettere un certo tipo di vita, ma non è la parte predominante.
Saw this film last night and I thought it was fantastic. I don't know why people are trying to compare films like Gladiator with this - you like what you like - however both films are completely different from each other. Both are great in their own way.
Just for everyone knowledge, that Martini sign has always been their and its kind of an attraction, its not for the movie, the movie just takes place next to it
simplysurprising I think its just a rooftop to an apartment block, but I may be mistaken, I pass by it on the train so I've very rarely been in the actual area of the city.
I fell in love with this trailer, and then really enjoyed the film (though perhaps not quite as much as I had hoped) -- but my interest in the film really came alive after I visited Rome just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, I didn't do any of the clubbing or parties, but I totally felt that surreal, magical feeling of the city the filmmakers were trying to capture.
My favourite movie of 2013, it was amazing. The trailer doesn't reveal much but trust me... it's better that way. I watched the film having no idea what it was about and I loved it. It has such an interesting concept and characters... it's really unique.
the Great Gasby?! Yeah, sure. Now come back to watch Transformers, Fast & Furious and all your sh*t. You can't get a more complex plot than Spongebob for sure, or appreciate one of the greatest actor alive, such Toni Servillo is.
Alice B lol why everyone here so bitter with american movies? Because this is a good movie doesn’t mean that others are bad. They are different. You may have a higher sense of appreciation for this one since you’re italian. But it’s not for every audience. And no im not american but i love american movies, including spongebob!!
There is no other movie that can be compared to this amazing beauty!! Who thinks that this is fast 9 italian version or sweet november or any other movie no it's not!! It is something very very very special !!
dance song: Bob Sinclar ft. Raffaella Carrà - Far l'amore instrumental song (last one): Tavener - The Lamb the lovely lady in minute 1:19 : Anna Luisa Capasa now if i may ask what was the very first song
I don't know what 2013's obsession with the great gatsby and American dream films were all about but it sure was fascinating. the wolf of wall street, the great beauty, spring breakers, pain and gain, American hustle, the bling ring and the great gatsby itself
this movie was visually beautiful and the dialogue was excellent but unfortunately it didn't have a very compelling plot, I feel like everything that happened was mere coincidence
Don't know how much of a cinephile are you, but maybe you just self discovered a new language of cinema. Indeed Malick would very approve that and the whole european cinema. I leave you with the quote: "Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers." - Peter Greenaway
This movie changed my life, in a way that no other movie did. Watched it in 2014 for the first time, just after it won an Oscar and it inspired me to go Italy, which I did that same year. Italy inspired me to travel, inspired my art and what I'm doing these days. The last 6 years has been the best time of my life and I will never forget what this movie meant and still means for me. Every once in a while I just put it on and immerse myself in it :)
Beautiful story
If you already did not, I suggest you to watch 8½ by Fellini.
@@PuffinEasy La Dolce Vita would be a better place to start
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"the best time of my life" you said ? i have it almost every day with jesus christ and my wife and and with my kids and grand kids in a holy way !
I thought this movie was going to be very pretentious, but for some reason i went to see it in the theaters. By the end I was absolutely blown away. There's a lot of philosophy and meaning behind it all. It's about growing older and living new experiences, questioning morality and the paths we take, and finding that happiness and love comes in short spurts of moments always escaping us, we tend to carry them as memories that can never be relived again. It was so odd, as if something wanted me to see this movie and I'm glad i found it.
Same feeling man.
I saw this in 2013 and fell in love .. I bought the DVD as soon as I could..I am 54 and have seen many foreign films.. This film has moved me as no other and I dont even know why ..I just adore it..
Last night I watched this movie and it is truly amazing. The way he stands on beach as an old man and thinking about his first love is heartbreaking, especially because she died. It can happen to all of us. When we are old and alone and when our partner or first love dies we can go to places where we meet or first kiss and where we create a great memories, and now we are here alone standing on this place without them, after all these years or lifetime. I will never be the same after this movie.
I watched this film last week. I cannot stop thinking about it. I would like to meet Paolo (the director) and ask him what is exactly the "trick" Jepp mentions in the last scene. I think the "trick" and the great beauty is that Jepp has faith in life again, like believing there is a meaning (maybe God) despite all the nonsense he lived in the mundane life of Rome, and the fact he let the love of his life to slip away. The small moments of beauty in his life where hints for his new outlook of life, maybe a spiritual outlook. That "faith" gives him the creativity to start writting again, after so many years. But I don't know, this films still intrigues me.
Cheers
This movie helped me to get trough some of the toughest times in my life. I was very depressed, unhappy with my life and suicidal. I remember seeing it on Netflix and not knowing what it was...After I finished I was sitting therein tears for almost an hour trying to process what I just watched. The fact it is a love letter to Rome, a city I visited often and absolutely adore is just a little bit of what it is about. forgiveness, regret, acceptance, life , love, loss...This is masterpiece that I will never forget.
The most beautiful movie I have ever seen so far. I don`t think Hollywood could ever make something this poetic and visually stunning. It`s almost like a painting - you can just watch it and enjoy it for the visuals and then, after a few times, once you get bored, you can get into it philosophically and get something out of it, as beautiful and stunning as the visual. This is what cinema should be all about.
everyone keeps saying how beautiful this movie is. All im seeing is parties and girls at clubs. It's not artistic.
then you obviously have not watched it. The dialogue just in itself is immaculate
The funeral scene is one of my all time favourites. If that is not artistic then I do not know what is.
Completely agree
I doubt there is anyone who make can make such a movie but if there is it has to be Terrence malick that's if he gets a script to follow.
I have to say that after watching this film, I knew I could not absorb everything on the first viewing, I wasn't sure exactly what I had watched, but I knew that it was a masterpiece. Yes, this won the Oscar and had buzz around it in 2013, but I fear this has quickly faded into the background when it should be recognized as one of the greatest films so far this century.
Had the same experience, I left the cinema the first time I saw it completely bewildered. Now I think it's the best film made this century
@@Lydiard91 when the movie finished i said to myself i need to watch it again, and again and again, i paused many times just to see scene
I'm italian and sorry if i haven't a good english. I think that the sense of the film is the difficulty for the human to find the great beauty. The great beauty is a spiritual-emotion thing, is the human trascendence, is the surprise for everything. There are many scenes where Jep, only for a second, watches the great beauty (The children that play with the sister, the bird in the sky, the giraffe) but immediatley he loses it for the confusion of his life. In the end of the film the symbol of great beauty isn't the girl, but the stairs (with the lighthouse) that stay behind the girl. In fact at the same time we watch the sister in the stairs very tired. The sense is the real nature of life, the difficulty and then the spiritual sense of an immensity, a great immensity that stay everything. The work of a writer is caught this immensity.
Thank you for your description. I agree. I saw this film in a nearly empty theater on the last night of its run by myself. I thought it was wonderful... for all the reasons you gave.
GOD
+fac6mati _His "è solo un trucco" is the answer to Poe's "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" ;-)_
+fac6mati It's funny how, while the girl undressed, I was more intrigued by the light reflecting on the rocks than trying to get a glimpse at her breasts. There is beauty in the circumstances of how things come together, not the things themselves.
Thanks for making me understand, ciao :)
Hi friend. Your English is good. Can you help me find an Italian film? It's about a little girl and I think her grandfather, each trying to deal with a death in the family. Thank you :)
All songs (like this so that people could see it)
0:06 Arvo Pärt - My Heart's in the Highlands
0:45 Bob Sinclar & Rafaella Carra - A Far L'Amore Comincia Tu
1:10 John Tavener - The Lamb
I must say that this is a very high quality trailer, very classy and stylish.
ionutzmovie thanks for this
Thank you
Gracias!
I always tear up when "The Lamb" cuts in. So lovely. Three amazing songs, though, if I'm being quite honest. Pärt and Tavener are titans of sacred choral.
thanks
how can a movie be so brilliant?
cinema is the highest art form isnt it? astonishing!
I have the same question! Watching this movie is like being in heaven! It's something else
@@jackfirmin5814 highest form from art its literature, my friend.
@@matthewraphael Be inspires by La Dolce Vita
Italy guys
No One talks in italian better than this guy! his voice, pronunciation..so cool
well this guy IS italian... I am italian too and I can still hear some flows in his pronunciation cause the true italian comes from Florence not from Rome..
@@francescagiacomelli5950 L'influsso del fiorentino/toscano sull'italiano è indubbio a livello storico, tuttavia far coincidere lo standard attuale (soprattutto in termini di pronuncia) con il fiorentino mi sembra un po' azzardato.
@@francescagiacomelli5950 ma se servillo è campano
@@carnotaurussastrei2536 e chi ha mai detto altro?
The Great Beauty is a masterpiece
No other movie knows how to capture beauty like this one.
+desa pole "Youth" from the same director
+DesapoleEdits Did you ever watch 8 1/2? Cos I felt, through the entire thing, I was watching the same movie.
+Livio44
Youth is nothing like the Great Beauty
You mean LA DOLCE VITA?
Couldnt agree more! Love it so much, watched it many many times
I'm Italian and I read comments such as: "Gatsby Italian", "movies shit" ... etc ... I know why a great nation like America (which I respect), at least 70% of the people are ignorant in film and art? Continue to look at you fast and furious, braveheart and gladiator ...
Wow. Gladiator is one of the best movies kid. I'm European but what I don't like about our cinema is it's profanity, brutality, sexism and etc. "The Great Beauty" is all that I don't like. It doesn't have much of a meaning either. There's no deep meaning behind the movie. Just this. And that. Nothing more. I'd watch "V for Vendetta" instead.
IFrozenFireI I have to answer seriously?
Easley Pernigotto I don't know. Are you for real? I'm sure if Leonardo was still alive he'd be laughing at his neighbors.
IFrozenFireI What should I answer a person who watches the movie "playful" and says that the gladiator is one of the best movies? it is obvious that you do not understand the concept of this film.
Easley Pernigotto Dude. This movie is about life. But it's about the absolute brutal part of life. I, in fact hate everything about this movie. And there's nothing to understand about this movie. It's just the Great Beauty, nothing more, nothing less.
While Gladiator is just a spectacle with great ending and deep meaning attached to the movie, this one is just... So shallow.
That's the point in life. You have to choice. You can be like him. He's the king.but when you see him in that party what do you see? Nothing. An old man that lives on his memories. He doesn't want to be like this because his alone. He's like a poet. He understand the meaning of life when its too late. Music changes an also emotions. The best part of you're life its when you're young because you can decide. When you're old to can't do nothing, like a ship in a storm. Who you're gonna be? You don't know. That's why life sucks and at the same time is gorgeous. That's the great beauty. You.
But also it is never too late to change. I did not feel that the message is so pessimistic about old age. Even if you live your life participating in mindless partying and so forth, it's still an improvement to take the risk and start living the way you actually want. Jep Gambardella started writing again, and as well can we start chasing our dreams again, whenever we are ready. The Great Beauty is made of small everyday things. After all, it's all a trick ;)
That's why it's important to clarify what or who you want to be :) many ppl don't do this
If you feel these things then you are a great human being.
@@ViechloverYes, that is true but you can decide at any age to just do one, except right now you are not going to get very far.
It's not easy, it's a proccess by itself.
I’m considerably late with my review but only because I missed writing one when I saw the film when it first came out. First of all, this film is art, it’s not to be consumed like Jep consumes his parties, his friends and, of course, alcohol. Art is when it forces you to take a new look at certain things in your life, re-evaluate your dear held beliefs. What is beauty? What is the essence of life? There’s no definitive answer to it and answers can change over time. Once it was the high life, the appeal of it, the upbeat rhythm of it, the beauty on the surface but one can’t be 26 forever. No one will be as beautiful at 60 as one was at 26 and yet, there can be beauty still. In oneself in the intangible, in the small things. In a life experience, in a smell, in a view. Something that needs to be expressed and by expressing it creates a different kind of beauty. Jep is at an inflection point in his life. He can’t go on as he used to but he also can’t let go what used to define him but doesn’t fulfill him anymore. By observing the details he didn’t care for such a long time provides him with a new sense of purpose. He’s going to write again. He’s going to write his life down but not in a superficial way, not in the way of an account ready to be printed in Vogue. He will find the great beauty in introspection. It is only a fleeting sense throughout the film because it has to be. The entire film is focussed on this particular inflection point where the old life sinks into oblivion and the new life has not yet started . In the end, it is on us to find the Great Beauty within ourselves and the way to achieve that is to do whatever it is you’re passionate about. It was living the high life for Jep and it will be writing about it now. What about you?
One of the best movies ever made
My favorite movie if we're being honest. Just…a stupendous and heart wrenchingly gorgeous masterwork about beauty itself.
Just watching the trailer gives me chills
Sorrentino is a genius.
I love it how the hollywood generation is confused by this kind of movie, which is telling a story with beautiful cinematography, and gives the viewer the power of imagination and interpretation. No wonder so many people are lost with this trailer, because they lost this powers...
Tracchofyre
so true, if something is garbage and people dont understand what the f it is they just call it art.
Tracchofyre I agree with a lot of what you said, but in this case the self indulgence is allowed and really vital. Its a film that at one level is all about self indulgence and the chrs who all inhabit such a world. So if you haven't seen this, give in and do. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
it's mind-boggling how people can find this movie boring.
This movie is about someone paralyzed into irony BECAUSE he is self-indulgent. I hope you have since seen it.
You're completely wrong in saying that this - like many other European movies - are made "for directors and film critics instead for the people". Artistic movies are directed primarily to the people, period. Even if the average viewer is not capable to understand what makes a great movie so great, that doesn't mean that he's unable to perceive it as great altogether. Movies like this one are not about a story, and do not contain any philosophical position. Instead, it's just an attempt to channel a sentiment, a feeling - and the "people" are expected to use their intellect to explore those feelings, to understand why they are so powerful, to engage them in a way which is for the most part lost, in our society moving at ever higher speed. Movies like this offer the spectator the possibility to question life altogether, without forcing the audience to swallow the director's own interpretation (in fact, you can interpret The Great Beauty any way you like). Everyone can do that, not just critics. I'm sorry that you find it so 'elitist' and exclusive, I really believe it is not - and I suggest you to give this movie a try, without being so prejudiced against it.
One of the top 10 best movies I've seen.
The title refers to the cinematography.
His movie Youth and The Great Beauty are two of the greatest films I've ever seen. They're such beautiful films that make me think about life so deeply and sincerely. Thank you, Sorrentino!
The last song is 'The Lamb' by Sir John Tavener. One of Britain's most well known modern composers, he sadly died on 12th November 2013.
This movie is a masterpiece. But you guys MUST watch "The Consequences Of Love" by Paolo Sorrentino (2004).
Best movie ever.
Wow just saw it great film. Thanks
***** Maybe you're right.
***** No. It is a masterpiece!
+RoadKillzine A stranger on the internet said so, and The Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards and many professional critics :) If for you, it's not a masterpiece, I wonder what kind of taste you have for movies.
I can’t find this movie no matter how hard I look online. You have any tips? Where did you see it?
Weird! The first time I watched it. Wasn't sure. Did several rewatch, and... This movie does something to you. Don't know why but felt emotional. Reading the comment below to find I'm not the only one. It's a love letter to Rome, of the nightlife, of art so much art, a love letter to the passage of time, to first love, but so much more. To those who are skeptical, don't be. Simply press play and let yourself be absorb by the story, the images, the beautiful sometime haunting music.
Deeply melancholic.
Am I the only one who likes this trailer and the movie?
no. i love this movie. however, when i 1st watched i thought the same thing, that is was boring and superficial. but once i did a little reading about how the movie and how it is suppose to be a representation of the past and present of what is happening in rome, the movie took on a whole new meaning for me.
widM I loved the soundtrack which is symbolic, metaphorical and even satirical. And it actually tells more about the plot than the narrative itself.
Well, I find three main ideas reflected in the plot - spirituality or just belief, then, the passing of time and, of course, "tabula rasa", pure-sacred versus profane. Every aspect revolves around this. Then there's this soundtrack which on the whole is pretty much reflecting religious themes. I.e. Arvo Part's "My Heart in the Highlands" is a song about longing and nostalgia and the first idea that pops in my mind when I hear Part's name is christianity. Then there are even more obvious aspects, such as the idea of the lamb, which definitely belongs to the "tabula rasa" theme. This one is demonstratively shown via Tavener's "The Lamb". Of course, the lamb is Jep. This one is crucial. Anyway, I am not sure if I prove the whole thing, though to me - it seems pretty much obvious.
teringpixel I also think it's pretty obvious how soundtrack reflects movie's themes and connect them.
teringpixel you're welcome!
ONE OF THE SINGLE BEST FILMS EVER MADE.
Too many dislikes and some really disappointing comments... It seems like romanticism and "humanity" (which is art, in my opinion) is only available to a small number of well educated people... Not trying to offend anyone, but please, try to go further when watching this film, there are many symbolisms and scenes that are pure poetry. This film is a masterpiece, really enjoyable. And no, its not like "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "Great Gatsby"... I kind of liked both of those films but partying and excess do not always have the same meaning, in this film those are the less important parts to take into account (even though partying scenes were greatly done).
Non mi meraviglio di chi critica questo film.
Infatti credo che certe persone sono incredibilmente innamorate della mediocrità...
Questo film è un CAPOLAVORO
giustissimo
Sono felice del golden globe e della selezione agli Oscar, ma spero comunque di poterlo criticare senza per questo dovermi sentire un mediocre. Il film a tratti è davvero bello, Sorrentino è bravo, e lo sa... a tratti però mi è piaciuto molto meno..
bella cazzata..
Quoto. L'ho visto per caso e mi sono subito reso conto di quanto ben fatto sia. L'ho consigliato poi ad ogni persona che conosco.
Le persone sono abituate a criticare e a disprezzare quello che non si comprende e non si conosce
One of my favourite movies of all time!
This movie single-handedly made me pursue film making
this is one of those truly rare movies that gets you to think about the bigger picture. bravo
One of the best movies ever made.
Bhai batayega kya hai isme
One of the greatest movies i ever seen in my life...
Sensibility in the middle of mundanity, truly a modern day classic
Amazing! Im so proud of my Neopolitan brother!!
This is by far one of the greatest movies ever made.
ONE of the BEST FILM in this YEAR.
This is honestly one of the best films ever made. Just look on it as sort of a contemporary update on 'La Dolce Vita' - if you've seen that (classic) film you have some idea what to expect.
This is movie is masterpiece. Beautiful Italy.
You have to watch it 3-4 times to fully understand it.
A masterpiece. I can't wait to see more by this filmmaker.
Well, I suggest you "This Must Be The Place" (2011), starring an amazing -as always- Sean Penn.
Watch the new one on Netflix...The hand of God
This was a masterpiece
This is one of the most amazing, moving pieces of film I’ve ever watched.
Films like this capture that indescribable emotion you get from films like the ones from Fellini; its cinema in the purest form.
Favorite film of last year. Got a 'Tree of Life' feel while watching it. Possibly the best soundtrack to a movie ever
A cinema master piece. I'm obcessed with it. Whatched many times and still watching. It's marvellous. I live in Brazil, and "Il divo" has not been launched here. I hope that "Loro" will be.
One of the best movies I've seen. Goosebumps
Pay attention Hollywood, this is trailers done well, not like that of yours who shows all the movie.
PD: 1:38 Costa Concordia. 1:19 beautiful italian girl.
I realized after i saw the movie, months after my first comment, that the simply put "beautiful italian girl in 1:19" was non other that "The Great Beauty" (La Grande Bellezza) personified, the love and magic that Jep had lost was incarnated in this girl. Now Jep is left with a vacuous and sad life, but i think by the end of the movie is in peace with himself and with the motivation to write again. Stunning cinematography and script. Amazing movie, it touches so many deep places in ones mind and soul.
Klaus141986 I saw the movie and I don't get it. Okay, I see he goes searching for this great beauty in the high class world and finds drugs, sex, and hypocrisy. I don't understand what happened with him and Romana?? Can you explain why it's so great??
+R. Cheng ramona dieded
Totally bro !! 👍
"fac6mati" wrote this 3 years ago:
"I'm italian and sorry if i haven't a good english. I think that the sense of the film is the difficulty for the human to find the great beauty. The great beauty is a spiritual-emotion thing, is the human trascendence, is the surprise for everything. There are many scenes where Jep, only for a second, watches the great beauty (The children that play with the sister, the bird in the sky, the giraffe) but immediatley he loses it for the confusion of his life. In the end of the film the symbol of great beauty isn't the girl, but the stairs (with the lighthouse) that stay behind the girl. In fact at the same time we watch the sister in the stairs very tired. The sense is the real nature of life, the difficulty and then the spiritual sense of an immensity, a great immensity that stay everything. The work of a writer is caught this immensity. "
This movie is worth our attention ladies and gentlemen.Especially the last scene was great ... watch it and you won't regret it.It is a good film.
No. It is a great, great film.
sclogse1 a modern masterpiece. will be seen as a classic of Italian cinema for years to come
*Fellini* would be jealous of this film. Simply EPIC!!!
Io trovo che molti in Italia abbiano criticato questo film perché (avendo avuto un grande successo) sono stati obbligati a specchiarsi in esso e immagino che i più non abbiano apprezzato il riflesso che vi hanno scorto. Il primo peccato di questo film è di aver avuto successo: in Italia non si perdona mai il successo quando è meritato; il secondo è di essere sincero: quanti ne conosco, anche fra chi non frequenta ambienti mondani, che vivono crogiolandosi in un continuo bagno di menzogne per non doversi confrontare con una mediocrità dalla quale hanno smesso di lottare per emergere? Il terzo è l'affetto e la pietà che Sorrentino ti porta a provare per i personaggi e le loro piccole e grandi miserie: a nessuno piace essere compatito, a maggior ragione se ce n'è motivo. Credo che molti tra quelli che hanno dato giudizi aspri su questo film dovrebbero magari farsi un esame di coscienza, non tanto a beneficio di Sorrentino, che credo di queste opinioni proprio se ne sbatta, quanto proprio per loro stessi.
hai ragione in pieno
Valerio Alberti
sei grande come SORRENTINO, azzecato in pieno, io sono rimasto freddo leggendo le loro critiche.
saluti da San Francisco. Tony
Valerio Alberti Sintesi perfetta, bravo Valerio.
+Valerio Alberti _Non parlo italiano, quindi ho dovuto utilizzare il traduttore di Google per capire il tuo commento, ma sono pienamente d'accordo. Anche se nella maggior parte dei paesi in cui invidiare la loro gente quando qualcuno ha successo internazionale, è nella natura umana credo. E sì questo film ricorda "La dolce vita", tuttavia Sorrentino merita la gloria, questo è un grande film. Mi dispiace per eventuali errori, si capisce che il mio commento è anche un prodotto di Google Translator_
Bo. descrive una roma e una italia tutta mondanità, feste e cretinaggine. Non mi pare rispecchi la maggior parte dell'italia, delle persone che si svegliano la mattina presto e vanno a lavorare per arrivare alla fine del mese. Certamente c'è anche l'italia dei più fortunati che si può permettere un certo tipo di vita, ma non è la parte predominante.
Saw this film last night and I thought it was fantastic. I don't know why people are trying to compare films like Gladiator with this - you like what you like - however both films are completely different from each other. Both are great in their own way.
I could not move after watching this film. I simply could not move.
did you get up to pee halfway, though
@@Gliese380 Ahahahaha... I don't remember.
Life is short
Great beauty in short
Perfect
it's for sensitive and romantic people, I felt my own joy and pain of living in this multiform city...
This is such a masterpiece and I so glad I was looking for foreign movies and found this gem.
This film changed my life
The great beauty is in youthful loves, in small moments of peace, in comforting a friend
little things we live in pieces.
Just for everyone knowledge, that Martini sign has always been their and its kind of an attraction, its not for the movie, the movie just takes place next to it
do you know the name of the rooftop bar where the first dance scene is?
simplysurprising I think its just a rooftop to an apartment block, but I may be mistaken, I pass by it on the train so I've very rarely been in the actual area of the city.
I fell in love with this trailer, and then really enjoyed the film (though perhaps not quite as much as I had hoped) -- but my interest in the film really came alive after I visited Rome just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, I didn't do any of the clubbing or parties, but I totally felt that surreal, magical feeling of the city the filmmakers were trying to capture.
The best film of 2013! it should win the Oscar!
And it did won :)
moving, touching. Thank you Paolo, thank you Tony.
Shwetabh Bhaiya Zindabad 🔥🔥🔥
Meow Meow Squad!!!!🐱
Kya tha bhai ye
@@mradventureplanate3657 Movie h bhai
Raw and real
Best movie i've seen in my whole life
My favourite movie of 2013, it was amazing. The trailer doesn't reveal much but trust me... it's better that way. I watched the film having no idea what it was about and I loved it. It has such an interesting concept and characters... it's really unique.
a metaphor of life in a masterpiece
the Great Gasby?! Yeah, sure. Now come back to watch Transformers, Fast & Furious and all your sh*t. You can't get a more complex plot than Spongebob for sure, or appreciate one of the greatest actor alive, such Toni Servillo is.
What about Elio Germano?
Alice B lol why everyone here so bitter with american movies? Because this is a good movie doesn’t mean that others are bad. They are different. You may have a higher sense of appreciation for this one since you’re italian. But it’s not for every audience. And no im not american but i love american movies, including spongebob!!
The trailer doesn't do it justice.... Excellent Movie xx
1:20 amazing portrait
who is she?
Miguel Rodriguez No tengo idea.
She’s the perfect moment, the feeling that will never come back.
This film didn’t win a single award at Cannes but still managed to win an Oscar.
Amazing simply amazing
Pure art
Art is life
This movie is the best ever made.
just saw it. amazing. It has been a while I watched a movie like this
Raw and real gang
There is no other movie that can be compared to this amazing beauty!! Who thinks that this is fast 9 italian version or sweet november or any other movie no it's not!! It is something very very very special !!
dance song: Bob Sinclar ft. Raffaella Carrà - Far l'amore
instrumental song (last one): Tavener - The Lamb
the lovely lady in minute 1:19 : Anna Luisa Capasa
now if i may ask what was the very first song
La dolce vita... 40 ans plus tard..Marcello est devenu vieux et cherche encore le bonheur...béni soit Fellini et béni soit Sorrentino..
How many are here after Shwetabh bhai's recommendation.
Bhai mile.toh bhejna
Meow Meow Squad!!!🐱
the best film of the 2013
yes!
Pretty good movie, the cinematography was easily one of the best and most captivating I've seen in a while.
wow this actually looks really good
one of my favorite movies
Beauty without innocence is a sad reality in mankind beauty in art and creativity is the only positive that can help emotional people out of this
What a story, good acting, impressive directing!
"The Lamb", composed by John Tavener -- the choral work in the latter half of the trailer
Who came on swetabh gangwar recommendations 👌🙏
Meow Meow Squad!!!🐱
I don't know what 2013's obsession with the great gatsby and American dream films were all about but it sure was fascinating. the wolf of wall street, the great beauty, spring breakers, pain and gain, American hustle, the bling ring and the great gatsby itself
The images and music in this film are beautiful. Makes me want to see it-a Yank in Ireland.
This. All That Jazz. 8 1/2. Synecdoche, NY.
I love this film. Beautiful.
This film looks gorgeous and impressive. I will have to watch it one day.
MOST. EPIC. TRAILER.
at last, a trailer that doesn't give us spoilers, you just see he has a rough time at some point, but not saying what caused it. Thank you.
this movie was visually beautiful and the dialogue was excellent but unfortunately it didn't have a very compelling plot, I feel like everything that happened was mere coincidence
You have a good catch! You coincidentally caught, everyhing in the movie is to be coincidence. And also some movies dont have to have a plot at all.
Malick approves.
Don't know how much of a cinephile are you, but maybe you just self discovered a new language of cinema. Indeed Malick would very approve that and the whole european cinema. I leave you with the quote: "Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers." - Peter Greenaway
...so, you mean, like in real life? : D