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The Great Beauty

7.5(3,383)20132h 22m4

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$9.2M
Box office
$24.9M
Language
Italian
  • journalist
  • based on novel or book
  • rome, italy
  • alcohol
  • birthday
  • vatican (holy see)
  • nightclub
  • giraffe
  • artist
  • beauty
  • satire
  • aging

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Produced in

France, Italy

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical15 Nov 2013
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical156 Sept 2013
    • Physical15DVD13 Jan 2014
  • AustriaAT

    • Digital / OTT1226 Jul 2013
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical (limited)1421 May 2013
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical14IMDB20 Dec 2013
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereBeijing International Film Festival16 Apr 2026
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical31 Oct 2013
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical75 Sept 2013
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1218 Apr 2014
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival21 May 2013
    • TheatricalTP22 May 2013
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1225 Jul 2013
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalΚ-1228 Nov 2013
    • PhysicalDVD, Blu-ray4 Apr 2014

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The Great Beauty was released on 21 May 2013.

Audience reviews

3
  • A

    Andres Gomez

    12/22/2015

    8/10

    Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.

  • A

    Asa_movies

    4/3/2017

    10/10

    Jep Gambardella: "The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere. ......................... This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and m…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    3/28/2026

    7/10

    I think it’s quite a testament to the performance from Toni Servillo here that he managed to turn a character that I pretty much despised at the start into one I almost pitied at the end. “Jep” is the literary equivalent of the one-hit wonder, but since writing the “Human Apparatus”, he has successfully sailed through his life in Rome until now, with his sixty-fifth birthday looming, he involuntarily begins to challe…

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