Yes. Haven't seen it discussed here but from comments elsewhere you either love it or hate it. I loved it: Tony Servillo is amazingly charismatic, the photography is sumptuous, the music is well-chosen and so perfectly mixed you sometimes feel that you're in a decadent nightclub rather than a cinema. It's one of the few films where the entire audience sat there right to the end of the credits, just entranced by the great beauty that is Rome.
I can imagine it wouldn't work nearly as well on a home TV as in a cinema because it's an in-your-face experience with larger-than-life characters. If it's on at the cinema (maybe revived for the Oscars) and you like Italian films then it's highly recommended.
I saw it as the last of the Best Foreign Language film marathon. I fell asleep for about 5-10 minutes because the story went nowhere and I was tired after watching 4 films. The film itself was so beautifully made but the story itself, with all due respect, was just not compelling. And I wasn't particularly drawn to the decadent lifestyle portrayed in it.
I saw it as the last of the Best Foreign Language film marathon. I fell asleep for about 5-10 minutes because the story went nowhere and I was tired after watching 4 films. The film itself was so beautifully made but the story itself, with all due respect, was just not compelling. And I wasn't particularly drawn to the decadent lifestyle portrayed in it.
Those dancing scenes were epic though.
You should have watched it first and then fallen asleep in one of the other films.
Yes. Haven't seen it discussed here but from comments elsewhere you either love it or hate it. I loved it: Tony Servillo is amazingly charismatic, the photography is sumptuous, the music is well-chosen and so perfectly mixed you sometimes feel that you're in a decadent nightclub rather than a cinema. It's one of the few films where the entire audience sat there right to the end of the credits, just entranced by the great beauty that is Rome.
I can imagine it wouldn't work nearly as well on a home TV as in a cinema because it's an in-your-face experience with larger-than-life characters. If it's on at the cinema (maybe revived for the Oscars) and you like Italian films then it's highly recommended.
Well, we settled down to watch this on DVD on Saturday and managed about half an hour before switching it off as nothing seemed to happen. The nightclub dancing scene just seemed to go on and on for no apparent reason. I was reminded of the interminable wedding scene in The Deer Hunter. The dialogue seemed utterly pretentious, which is, perhaps, deliberate. There's a parody of Fellini in one of Woody Allen's films - guys in sunglasses walking and smoking and talking about sex and it was quite a lot like that.
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Great soundtrack. Some striking images and odd surreal moments. Very Fellini-esque. Not sure I'm enamoured of it as some others though.
I'm pretty sure I saw a trailer for it in the cinema but didn't get around to watching it. 2013 was such a good year for cinema.:)
As jeff says, it did look quite Fellini-esque so bodes well.
I can imagine it wouldn't work nearly as well on a home TV as in a cinema because it's an in-your-face experience with larger-than-life characters. If it's on at the cinema (maybe revived for the Oscars) and you like Italian films then it's highly recommended.
And the nominations are...
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
[source: Google]
Those dancing scenes were epic though.
You should have watched it first and then fallen asleep in one of the other films.
It would have been better if this was the first film scheduled. I blame the cinema.
It was a feat though. 5 films in a tiny cinema for a day. All tickets sold out.
Well, we settled down to watch this on DVD on Saturday and managed about half an hour before switching it off as nothing seemed to happen.
I'll give it another go at some point.