The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty
Italian theatrical release poster
ItalianLa grande bellezza
Directed byPaolo Sorrentino
Screenplay by
  • Paolo Sorrentino
  • Umberto Contarello
Story byPaolo Sorrentino
Produced by
  • Nicola Giuliano
  • Francesca Cima
Starring
CinematographyLuca Bigazzi
Edited byCristiano Travaglioli
Music byLele Marchitelli
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21) (Italy)[1]
  • 22 May 2013 (2013-05-22) (France)
Running time
  • 142 minutes
  • 173 minutes (director's cut)
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
LanguageItalian
Budget€9.2 million
Box office$24.9 million[2]

The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza [la ˈɡrande belˈlettsa]) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or.[3] It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival,[4] the 2013 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (winning Grand Prix), and at the 2013 Reykjavik European Film Festival.

The film won Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[5] as well as the Golden Globe and the BAFTA award in the same category. It is a co-production between the Italian Medusa Film and Indigo Film and the French Babe Films, with support from Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Pathé and France 2 Cinéma.[6][7] With a production budget of €9.2 million, the film grossed over $24 million worldwide.

  1. ^ "La grande bellezza – MYmovies". Mymovies.it. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  2. ^ "The Great Beauty". BoxOffice. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes. Official Selection 2013: In Competition". Cannes. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up". The Guardian. London. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Oscars 2014: Full list of winners". BBC News. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  6. ^ De Marco, Camillo (18 September 2012). "La grande bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino sold in six countries". cineuropa.org. Cineuropa. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  7. ^ "The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)". Screenbase. Screen International. Retrieved 3 March 2013.

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