Screen Porty presents: La Grande Bellazza (‘The Great Beauty’)
6PM Bar/Doors Open
7PM Film Start
Screening Details
Please note – we have an earlier start time as this is a longer film. We will also have a 15min intermission and the bar will be open during this
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino 135min / 2013 / ITA/ Rated 15 / English subtitles
VENUE: The Wash House, 3 Adelphi Grove, Portobello EH15 1AP
TICKETS: £6 Adult On the door!
Under 16 year olds must be accompanied by an adult as required by our licensing conditions.
About the Film
In La Grande Bellezza, one of Italy’s most awarded film in recent years, we meet 65-year-old Jep Gambradella (Toni Servillo), a wealthy, successful yet jaded writer facing the gradual realisation of his empty, decadent existence and failure to live up to his potential. As the ‘king’ of elite Roman society, he is deeply immersed in “all of its splendour and superficiality, magnificence and malevolence, artifice and significance”. But after a sudden and unexpected visitor he begins to re-evaluate his life and the city he loves.
Won: Best Foreign Film (non-English) BAFTAS 2014; Best International Film, Academy Awards (Oscars) 2014; Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globes; Palme d’Or, Cannes 2013; Best Film, Director and Foreign Film, London Film Critics Awards and many more.