- Directed by
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Year
- 2013
- Running time
- 141 min
- Country
- Italy · France
- Language
- Italian
- Music
- Lele Marchitelli, with Arvo Pärt, David Lang and others
- Starring
- Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Jep Gambardella wrote one celebrated novel forty years ago and never wrote another. Since then he has been the most elegant guest at every terrace party in Rome.
After his 65th birthday, something cracks. Between nightclubs, saints, magicians and old loves, Jep walks through a city of staggering beauty and asks what he did with his own.
why this one.
Because it's a film about a man surrounded by people and still alone, in a city made for spectacle. Swap Rome for Dubai and the question still stands.
Morning on the Janiculum
The film opens with a cannon at noon, a choir, and a tourist who collapses in front of the view of Rome. Before any story begins, Sorrentino tells you the city itself is too much.
the fun fact.
The film opens with an epigraph from Céline's Journey to the End of the Night. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014, along with a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
