History Film / TheGreatBeauty

* CoolOldLady: Dadina, Jep's dwarf [[DaEditor editor]], who is basically [[Series/GameOfThrones Tyrion Lannister]] but female and a successful editor.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Jep leaves Rome desperate because of his continual failures.

* MeaningfulName: Romano means "Roman" although he was not the born in Rome. In the end he leaves the metropolis treturning to his native city.

* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: Jep leaves Rome desperate because of his continual failures.

* ScrewThisIMOuttaHere: Jep leaves Rome desperate because of his continual failures.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Ramona, the daughter of Jep's old friend, who is far different from the shallow people Jep is used to and starts with him a platonic friendship which is pretty much a ray of light in the darkness of Jep's boredom.

* CoolOldLady: Dadina, Jep's dwarf [[DaEditor editor]], who is basically [[GameOfThrones Tyrion Lannister]] but female and a successful editor.

* TheChewToy: Romano cannot catch a break. He's constantly looking for a successful piece to direct, has an opportunistic girlfriend that treats him with contempt and he's basically the NoRespectGuy. After years of frustration [[spoiler: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he leaves Rome and returns to his native city.]]]]

* AllStarCast: Although not for foreign viewers, for Italians it's a long series of HeyItsThatGuy.

* AllStarCast: tough not for foreign viewers, but for Italians it's a long series of HeyItsThatGuy.

* TheChewToy: Romano cannot catch a break. He's constantly looking for a successful piece to direct, has an opportunistic girlfriend that treats him with contempt and he's basically the NoRespectGuy. After years of frustration [[spoiler: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resolves with coming back to his native city.]]]]
* CoolOldLady: Dadina, Jep's dwarf editor, who is basically [[GameOfThrones Tyrion Lannister]] but female and a successful editor.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Ramona, who is dyng of cancer, disappeares after the scene where she hand't sex with Jep and the movie cuts with Jep being askes by a misterious woman ''Who's going to look after you?'' and Ramona's father sitting alone in his nightclub grieving.]]

* KickTheDog: With his snarking ways, Jep manages to make few. One is with the man who is recently widowed with Jep's TheOneThatGotAway, who is asked by Jep if they ever had sons. The man answer that he couldn't. Jep says "But I could.". Tough after recognizes his rudeness.
** Another could be TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Stefania, tough she was pratically looking for it.

* TheOner: The credits play over an epic eight-minute single take of a boat on the Tiber.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jep is goaded into delivering one and utterly eviscerates his friend in the process.

* SharpDressedMan: Jep is always dressed with impeccable suits.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Like written under the image, one could do a DrinkingGame with everytime it is compared to ''Film/LaDolceVita'', tough the movie shares significative similarities with 8 1/2. It's a safe bet to say that it's fellinian.

* UpperclassTwit: Most of people Jep hangs out with.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Like written under the image, one could do a DrinkingGame with everytime it is compared to LaDolceVita, tough the movie shares significative similarities with 8 1/2. It's a safe bet to say that it's fellinian.

[[caption-width-right:420:You can do a DrinkingGame for every time they say that shares similarities with LaDolceVita...]]

''La Grande Bellezza'' is yet another outing for ProductionPosse Paulo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo in a particularly resplendent production. The film has received great acclaim from critics, and has been favourably compared to the work of Creator/FedericoFellini and indeed bears more than a passing similarity to ''LaDolceVita''; there's no story as such, just a series of vignettes that align to tell Jep's story.

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[[caption-width-right:300:You can do a DrinkingGame for every time they say that shares similarities with LaDolceVita...]]

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[[caption-width-right:419:You can do a DrinkingGame for every time they say that shares similarities with LaDolceVita...]]

* TheChewToy: Romano cannot catch a break. He's constantly looking for a successful piece to direct, has an opportunistic girlfriend that treats him with contempt and he's basically the NoRespectGuy. After years of frustration [[spoiler: resolves with coming back to his native city.]]

* CoolOldLady: Jep's dwarf editor, who is basically [[GameOfThrones TyrionLannister]] but female and a successful editor.

* SpiritualSuccess: Like written under the image, one could do a DrinkingGame with everytime it is compared to LaDolceVita, tough the movie shares significative similarities with 8 1/2. It's a safe bet to say that it's fellinian.
* TheTropicOfCancer: [[spoiler: Ramona is seretly dying of cancer and reveals it only to Jep.]]

* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Jep didn't forget his first love, who sttled down with another man, and spent his life womanizing.

* SmashCut: The party scenes are chock-full of very frenetic edits to further emphasise their dislocation, in contrast to LeaveTheCameraRunning above.

* MagnumOpus: Jep has only written one book in his entire life, but it's reputed to be loved by all of Italy.

Jep Gambardella is a witty, wealthy socialite who after writing a modern classic in his youth has been dining out on it ever since in an endless succession of parties among Rome's artistic elite. However, after his 65th birthday party he's informed by a tearful widower that his first girlfriend, and the subject of his one and only book, has died. This triggers a slow but profound HeealRealisation from Jep that, despite best intentions, he's been wasting his talents and goes on a search for... something.

''La Grande Bellezza'' is yet another outing for ProductionPosse Paulo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo in a particularly resplendent production. The film has received great acclaim from critics, and has been favourably compared to the work of Creator/FedericoFellini and indeed bears more than a passing similarity to LaDolceVita; there's no story as such, just a series of vignettes that align to tell Jep's story.

-> "When I came to Rome at the age of 26, I fell pretty swiftly, almost without realising it, into what might be defined as the whirl of the high life. But I didn't just want to live the high life. I wanted to become its king. I didn't just want to go to parties. I wanted to have the power to make them a failure."