The Great Beauty
Paolo Sorrentino · 2013
Paolo Sorrentino’s 2013 film follows Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old Roman journalist who has spent decades observing high society without participating. After learning of the death of his first love, he begins a slow, wordless reckoning with time, memory, and creative silence. Shot by Luca Bigazzi and scored by Lele Marchitelli, it is a formally precise, emotionally restrained portrait of spiritual inertia set against Rome’s layered history.