Great Beauty, The

Date: 2013
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Production Company: Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Babe Film

Stars: Toni Servillo
Location(s): Rome

Region(s):

Storyline:

Celebrating his 65th birthday, a journalist parties hard and meanders around Rome. SJ

Additional Information:

Original title: La Grande Bellezza

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Awaiting the firing of the noonday gun on the Gianicolo hill. Rome Adventure enjoyed a similar shot!

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On the same terrace: the Piazzale Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Looking north. SJ

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Further south a tourist refreshes at the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola.

Seen also in Spectre, Assassination in Rome, Come September and Three Coins in the Fountain.

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The view over Rome looking east from the top of the fountain.

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Basilica di Santa Sabina all'Aventino.

There are four such structures as viewed from the Piazza Pietro d'Illiria but this is the only one with a dark brick on the far right near the top of the railing. SJ

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Servillo enjoys a sip from a nasone or fontanella.

I should be a little higher. SJ

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Sweeping the road.

Via di Santa Sabina. SJ

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The Piazza d'Illiria with the Via di Santa Sabina behind the camera.

Very tricky to achieve the same perspective. To see the tree in its infancy look at capture 20 of 'Three Coins in the Fountain'. SJ

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Giardino di Sant'Alesio, just a little further south-west on the Via di Santa Sabina but I forgot the "now" shot.

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Servillo surveys the Ponte Giuseppe Mazzini below the Lungotevere Farnesina.

Looking north-west. SJ

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Reverse pov brings up the Ponte Sisto.

I turned around too. SJ

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A flashback to a near drowning. The southern tip of Isola del Giglio, with il Faro di Capel Rosso in the background. The island is in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany.

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Bramante's Tempietto in the courtyard of the Chiesa di San in Montorio. This is on the Via Garibaldi just below the Fontana dell"Acqua Paolo.

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A giraffe in the Terme di Caracalla, south of the Colosseum.

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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, looking north-west from inside. Via Villa Giulia on the corner with Viale delle Belle Arti

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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia. A reverse shot

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Further inside the Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, to be found north-west of the Borghese Gardens.

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This, given the next shot, is above Servillos' apartment overlooking the Colosseum.

Can't see it there, but the open terrace is Servillo's on the Piazza del Colosseo.

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Servillo looks up from his primely located apartment.

A more down to earth view. SJ