The Great Beauty
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2013 |
| Country | Italy / France |
| Director | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Cast | Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Great Beauty | – |
| Español | La gran belleza | La gran belleza |
| Français | La grande bellezza | La grande bellezza |
| Deutsch | La Grande Bellezza – Die große Schönheit | La Grande Bellezza – Die grosse Schoenheit |
| Português | A Grande Beleza | A Grande Beleza |
| Italiano | La grande bellezza | La grande bellezza |
| Русский | Великая красота | Velikaya krasota |
| 中文（简体） | 绝美之城 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 絕美之城 | – |
| 한국어 | 그레이트 뷰티 | Geureiteu Byuti |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Vẻ đẹp vĩnh cửu | Ve dep vinh cuu |
| Bahasa Indonesia | The Great Beauty | The Great Beauty |
| 日本語 | グレート・ビューティー/追憶のローマ | Gurēto Byūtī Tsuioku no Rōma |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which aesthetic excess and existential emptiness collide within a late-life reckoning in Rome
■ Synopsis
An aging writer moves through Rome’s elite social world while confronting memory, wasted talent, spiritual fatigue, and the lost possibility of beauty.
■ RECIPE Tags
#ExistentialEmptiness #Beauty #Memory #Decadence #LateLifeReckoning
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Can beauty conceal emptiness?
Reason: Social brilliance and aesthetic abundance become surfaces that expose inner exhaustion.
Related Film: La Dolce Vita - Middle: Can memory recover the life that success has buried?
Reason: The protagonist’s present decadence is judged through the return of first love, youth, and lost sincerity.
Related Film: Wild Strawberries - Core: Can a person still find truth after living through spectacle?
Reason: The final movement separates ornamental beauty from the deeper beauty that survives vanity.
Related Film: 8½
■ Secondary Axes
- Aging artist: Late-life reflection turns art, desire, and failure into a final inner trial.
Related Film: Youth - Cultural exhaustion: A refined world continues performing itself after its spiritual center has collapsed.
Related Film: The Leopard
■ Person
- Director: Paolo Sorrentino
- Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte
■ Structural Tags
#DecadenceStructure #MemoryStructure #ReckoningStructure
■ Attribute Tags
#2013Film #ItalianFrenchFilm #DramaFilm
