Watching Paolo Sorrentino's THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013). This film is everything I wanted Fellini's LA DOLCE VITA (1960) to be.
— Nathanael Hood (@NateHood257) March 2, 2016
I always felt LA DOLCE VITA was bloated and hollow. Sorrentino nails all the emotions and quiet devastations I expected from such a story.
— Nathanael Hood (@NateHood257) March 2, 2016
Honestly, THE GREAT BEAUTY feels like what would have happened if Fellini hadn't gone into an artistic decline after AMARCORD.
— Nathanael Hood (@NateHood257) March 2, 2016
These scenes with Sister Maria are absolutely devastating. I can barely watch.
— Nathanael Hood (@NateHood257) March 2, 2016
The film's genius comes from its enthusiastic embrace of the intangible: the grasping for the unknowable, the unfeel-able. The music elevates the film's images into a visual prayer of desperation, lust, and piety.
9/10
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