The Great Beauty (2013) movie poster

The Great Beauty (2013)

La grande bellezza
ThumbScore
👍 79%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
Drama

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Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Runtime
2h 22m
Rated
NR
Country
France, Italy
Language
Italian
TMDB Rating
7.5/10 (3,288 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
86

Cast

Toni Servillo as Jep Gambardella · 72% avg
Carlo Verdone as Romano · 74% avg
Sabrina Ferilli as Ramona · 67% avg
Carlo Buccirosso as Lello Cava · 68% avg
Iaia Forte as Trumeau
Pamela Villoresi as Viola
Galatea Ranzi as Stefania
Franco Graziosi as Conte Colonna · 80% avg

Is The Great Beauty good?

Most people think so. 79% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1364 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#89 / 277 · 2013
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 8 · Paolo Sorrentino

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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Is the Great Beauty (2013) by italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino one of the greatest films of this decade or a pretentious and overly shot arthouse piece by a young filmmaker obsessed with technical mastery and superfluous classical aesthetics?
Now that we are in the last days of the year, this is a question I have been pondering for a while now. Was the Great Beauty one of the greatest... Read on Reddit →
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