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The Great Beauty

Jep Gambardella, king of Rome's nightlife, celebrates his 65th birthday at a riotous rooftop party. Despite his standing as a senior journalist, with all of Rome at his feet, a hole still pierces his heart. Can he see past the hypocrisy of the city and its society and return to his lost past, to the literary ambitions that were cut short and the emotional life that froze? Sorrentino's wonderful film is in dialogue with "La Dolce Vita", but where Fellini portrayed the existential crisis of a young man, Sorrentino offers a sober look in the face of death. That does not stop him from shaping the film as a joyful masquerade: a wealth of boisterous scenes, ridiculous characters who draw both smiles and empathy, venomous dialogue, all delivered in constant motion that keeps eye and ear on edge. Even a decade and a half later, it remains a brilliant film, full of humour and a touch of compassion, that deservedly won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.