On the big screen: The Great Beauty

Director: Paolo Sorrentino.

This Academy Award Winner, Golden Globe Award Winner and Bafta Award Winner, is a story of journalist Jep Gambardella, (Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) who has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades.

Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and social circles.

But when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory, a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.